Chemistry 8561, Fall Semester, 2011

Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Kinetics I

13:20-14:15, Monday, Wednesday, Friday

111 Smith Hall

Instructor:

Ilja Siepmann

  • Office: 227 Smith Hall
  • Phone: 4-1844
  • Email: siepmann@umn.edu
  • Office hours: anytime

Teaching Assistants:

Hadi Dinpajooh, Peng Bai, Angél Cortes-Morales, and Becky Lindsey

Announcements:

New Notes! (Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10)

Please note that class starts at 13:20.

 

Syllabus: (pdf, tex)

Schedule:
Date Topic Reading Homework Course Notes (pdf)
W Sept. 7 Introduction; Three Postulates 1.1-1.5

HW 1: McQuarrie 1-3 and 1-8

F Sept. 9 Canonical Ensemble 2.1-2.4 Notes 1    
M Sept. 12 Canonical Ensemble (contd.)    
W Sept. 14 Grand Canonical Ensemble  

 

  
F Sept. 16

Isobaric-Isothermal Ensembles

 3.1, 3.2

HW 2: McQuarrie 2-4, 2-7, 2-9

Notes 2  
M Sept. 19 Fluctuations    
W Sept. 21 Boltzmann statistics 3.3, 4.1

HW 3: McQuarrie 3-3, 3-7, 3-9, 3-20

Notes 3    
F Sept. 23

Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstien statistics

 4.2      
M Sept. 26

Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstien statistics (cont'd)

   
W Sept. 28 Ideal monotomic gas  
F Sept. 30 No Class (Bochum)    
M Oct. 3 No Class (Dortmund)    
W Oct. 5 Ideal monotomic gas (cont'd) Notes 4  
F Oct. 7

Ideal Diatomic Gas

6.1 - 6.3  
M Oct. 10 Ideal Diatomic Gas (contd.)  
W Oct. 12 Ideal Polytomic Gas 8.1-8.4  
F Oct. 14

Ideal Polytomic Gas (cont'd)

    
M Oct. 17 No Class (AIChE) 11.1-11.6    
W Oct. 20 No Class (AIChE) 12.1 - 12.3, 12.7      
F Oct. 21

Review

    
M Oct. 24 Midterm Exam 13.1 - 13.3 Notes 5    
W Oct. 26 Ideal Diatomic Gas (cont'd)  
F Oct. 28

Ideal Polyatimic gas

 8.1-8.4    
M Oct. 31 Ideal Polyatomic Gas (contd.)      
W Nov. 2

Classical Statistical Mechanics

 7.1-7.3      
F Nov. 4

Chemical Equilibrium

9.1      
M Nov. 7

Chemical Equilibrium

 9.2-9.3      
W Nov. 9

ST-3: Eyring Rate Theory
Crystals: Vibrations and Einstein Model

 11.1 and 11.2

Chelsea
(ST-3)

      
F Nov. 11 ST-5:Debye Model
ST-6: Phonons

11.3

Geoffrey
(ST-5)

Savio
(ST-6)

      
M Nov. 14

Crystals: Point Defects
Weakly Degenerate Quantum Gas

 10.1 and 10.3

Pragya

      
W Nov. 16 ST-7: Fermi level
ST-8: BE Condensation		 10.2 and 10.4

Partrick
(ST-7)

Kaining
(ST-8)

      
F Nov. 18 Real Gas and Virial Coefficients 12.1-12.4      
M Nov. 21 Corresponding States
vdW EOS		 12.7 and Hill 16.1

Phil

      
W Nov. 23

ST-9: & ST-10: Cell Theory

 Hill 16.2

Laura
(ST-9)

Becca
(ST-10)
F Nov. 25

Thanksgiving Holiday

     
M Nov. 28 Distribution functions 13.1-13.3
W Nov. 30 ST-11: Kirkwood Integral Eq.
ST-12 Direct Correlation		 134 and 13.5

Haoyu
(ST-11)

Drew
(ST-12)

      
F Dec. 2 Perturbation Theory 14.1
M Dec. 5

ST-13 and ST-14: BH and CWA Theories

 14.3

Josh
(ST-13)

      
W Dec. 7 Lattice Statistics; Ising model
F Dec. 9

Freely jointed polymer and random walk models

 Hill 13.3
M Dec. 12 ST-15: Rubber elasticity
ST-16: Flory Huggins theory		 Hill 21.2

Aaron
(ST-15)

Byron
(ST-16)

      
W Dec. 14 Wrap-up      
W Dec. 20 FINAL EXAM (8:00-10:00)      
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