Duration
15h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in mathematics | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Thermodynamics: states of matter, temperature, pressure, thermal expansion, ideal gas, heat and work, first law of thermodynamics, entropy and second law, heat engines, phase transitions
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course aims at teaching the phenomenological basis of thermal physics in order to complete the physics education of the mathematics students. At the end of the course, the mathematics students will have encountered all the notions of physics that are taught in high schools.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The prerequisite of this course is to have followed succeeded the courses "Physique Générale I" and "Physique Générale II"
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
none
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
The course will be given face-to-face "ex cathedra" on the blackboard.
Recommended or required readings
R.A. Serway & J.W. Jewett: Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics (Thomson, 2008)
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment will be done by an oral exam.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Peter Schlagheck Département de Physique Université de Liège IPNAS, building B15, office 0/125 Sart Tilman 4000 Liège Phone: 04 366 9043 Email: Peter.Schlagheck@ulg.ac.be http://www.pqs.ulg.ac.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
The subject matter to be evaluated covers the entire course.
Assessment methods
The evaluation will be done by an individual oral exam via lifesize.
Contacts
Peter Schlagheck Département de Physique Université de Liège IPNAS, bâtiment B15, local 0/125 Sart Tilman 4000 Liège Tél : 04 366 9043 Email : Peter.Schlagheck@ulg.ac.be http://www.pqs.ulg.ac.be
Items online
illustration of the second law with an oscillator in one dimension
These figures show the time evolution of an ensemble of trajectories within the phase space of a one-dimensional oscillator. The initial phase-space points of those trajectories are chosen such that they have the same total energy. The figures shown on the first page show the effect of a continuous variation of the oscillator's frequency taking place within 0 < t < 10. The figures on the second page show the effect of an abrupt variation of the frequency at t=0. The Hamiltonian of the system was chosen as H(r,p,t) = p^2/2 + [w(t)]^2 r^2 / 2 + a(t) r^4 / 4 with w=0.5, a=0 before and w=2, a=0.2 after the variation.