Table of Contents
Unit: First & Second Laws of Thermodynamics
Heat and Temperature (40 minutes)
- Ice calorimetry lab (Integrated Laboratory, 30 minutes)
- Comparing Thermodynamic Properties (SWBQs, 15 minutes)
- Dulong-Petit Law (Lecture, 5 minutes)
Introducing the First & Second Thermodynamic Laws (2 hours 55 minutes)
- Comparing Systems and Surroundings (Small Groups, 10 minutes)
- The First Thermodynamic Law (Lecture, 10 minutes)
- Snapping a Rubber Band (SWBQ and Lecture, 15 minutes)
- Hot Metal in Room Temperature Water (SWBQ, 3 minutes) (sometimes? could be skipped)
- The Second Thermodynamic Law (Lecture, 5 minutes)
- Thermodynamic Terminology (Thermodynaic Potentials) (Lecture, 7 minutes)
- The Thermodynamic Identity (Lecture, 5 minutes)
- Name the experiment (Activity, 25 minutes)
- Heat Capacity (Lecture, 10 minutes)
- Second ice calorimetry lab (Integrated Laboratory, 45 minutes)
Heat and Work (3 hours 40 minutes)
- Free expansion quiz and discussion (Activity, 40 minutes)
- Work in Thermodynamics (Lecture, 5 minutes)
- Using $pV$ and $TS$ Plots (Small groups, 35 minutes)
- Analyzing a Simple Cycle using a $pV$ Curve (Small groups, 65 minutes)
- Name the Experiment: Changing Entropy (Small groups, 15 minutes)
- Deriving the Carnot Efficiency (Lecture, 30 minutes)
Unit: Internal Energy
Maxwell Relations (1 hour 35 minutes)
- Monotonicity and State Functions (Lecture, 10 minutes) (CUT???)
- Legendre Transforms (Lecture, 5 minutes)
- Maxwell Relations (Lecture, 10 minutes)
- Seeking the right Maxwell Relation (Small groups, 20 minutes)
- Name the Experiment: Maxwell Relations (Small groups, 20 minutes)
- Name the (often skipped)Experiment: More Maxwell Relations (Small groups, 30 minutes) (Join with previous one, unify with paper)
Rubber Band Lab ()
- Rubber band lab (Integrated Laboratory, 1 hour 50 minutes)
Simple Cycles & Analyzing Thermodynamic Processes ()
- Always, Sometimes, or Never True (Small groups, 60 minutes) (could be skipped?)
Black Body Thermodynamics (30 minutes)
- Two Interacting Black Body Objects (Small groups, 30 minutes) (often skipped)
Unit: Statistical Mechanics
The Statistical Approach ()
- Comparing Statistical Mechanics to Thermodynamics (Lecture, 5 minutes)
- The Fairness Function (Lecture, 10 minutes)
- Combining Probabilities (Small Groups, 20 minutes)
Optimizing the Fairness ()
- Students as molecules dice activity (Kinesthetic, 25 minutes) (can be skipped, hard to manage, add
for getting energy constraints and microcanonical ensembles, could split?)
- Maximizing a Function (SWBQ, 5 minutes)
- Method of Lagrange Multipliers (Lecture, 10 minutes)
- Weighted Averages (Lecture, 10 minutes)
- Energy Constraints (Lecture, ?? minutes)
- Two Non-interacting Systems (SWBQs, 15 minutes)
- The Partition Function (Lecture, 10 minutes)
Moving from Statistics to Thermodynamics ()
- Fairness and Entropy (Lecture, 5 minutes)
- Relating the Internal Energy and Fairness (Lecture, 15 minutes)
Internal Energy of a Diatomic Gas (2 hours 10 minutes)
- Reviewing Several Energy Eigenvalues (Lecture, 10 minutes)
- Internal Energy of a Diatomic Ideal Gas (Lecture, 20 minutes)
- Calculating the Internal Energy of a Diatomic Ideal Gas (Small groups, 100 minutes)
The Third Thermodynamic Law (20 minutes)
- Third Law of Thermodynamics (Lecture, 20 minutes) (optional)