For first day of class:Read parts of Chapter 1 enough to bring to class Schroeder's definitions of a) temperature, b) heat, and c)  work.

• 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4,
  
• 1.7b). 1.11
  
• 1.12
• 1.16

• I often claim each person is worth 100 watts as a room heater. To check plausibility, suppose a person's dailly caloric intake is 2500 calories. Convert this to watts.
  
• 1.18, 1.20
• 1.15 To do this probem, take the balloon basket to be 2 m across, then  estimate the diameter from Fig 1.1 p. 3. Then treat the balloon as a sphere.
  
• Thermal expansion coefficient of Al and Cu based on our 633 nm laser experiment

• For a  1D ideal gas in an insulating container (no x or y velocity - very unrealistic), show that PV^3 is a constant when the system undergoes small volume changes. a) Show this condition is equivalent to dP/P + 3 dV/V = 0. b) You will want to show PV = 2U for this gas, then apply the first law to obtain the final result
• Problem 1.49
• Problem 1.50
• Problem 1.62
  

• 1.17 a) and b) For ideas on part b), read p. 142
• 1.17 c) and d) For more on VDW equation, see p. 180
• 2.8
• 2.10. Use the Combin function in Excel, otherwise you'll find factorials blowing up.

• 2.33, 2.36
• 2.37
• Problem on entropy change of ideal gas in adiabatic expansion, fast or slow  (emailed to you)
  
• 3.11, 3.12 assuming an average R of 14 and volume 20 m x 5 m x 10 m, neglecting loss to the ground (bottom area = 20m x 10m)
• 3.25 c, d, e (Parts a, b, and c were on a worksheet.) When plotting C for the metals, I let Nk = 25 J/K. Then I wrote the function in Maple, and did different substitutions for epsilon, letting it equal  Mk, where M is an intger. If M = 10, then it was as if epsilon = 10 x 1.38 x 10^-23 J. This let me fit curves with different M values for the three metals in the graph on p. 20.
  

• 4.10, 4.11
  
• 4.22
• 4.26
  
• 4.30
  
• 4.33
  

• 5.5
• 5.28 (you might try 5.24 as a warm-up)
  
• 5.27
• 5.29
• 5.32
• 5.48
  

• Take L = 44 kJ/mol in the vicinity of 25 C, and determine the dew point at a relative humidity of 30% and RH = 90% (see prob. 5.42)
  
• Prob 6.1, but let the total shared energy units be 600, and not 500.
• Prob. 6.39, but in part a) calculate for oxygen and not nitrogen, and in part b) cacluate for H2 and HD. To live though it in Maple you will need to pay attention to  Schroeder's pp. 244-246.
• 6.23
• Use the  rotational constant in prob 6.23 for CO and figure out its bond length. This needs a little quantum, and the idea that rotational KE is L^2/(2I), with L the angular momentum, and I the moment of inertia.
• Problem 6.38, except find the fraction of N2 molecules whose speed is less than 340 m/s at room temperature (going at less than the speed of sound).
  

• Use the iodine vapor fluorescence data from the Excel file I sent, and find the unit of vibrational energy for I2. Then, as you did for Cl2, calculate the heat capacities of I2, both C_v and  C_p
  
• Problem 7.2. We will discuss writing the grand partition function during class, and how one calculates mu in terms of partial presssure of  O2. The plot of  occupancy should start out low at low pressure (where hemoglobin needs to release oxygen), and much higher in the lungs.
  
• 7.20 Fermi energy and temperature in the Sun
  
• 7.21 Fermi energy and temperature in a nucleus
  
• 7.45 Photon gas pressure in the Sun