Enrollment year
2022/2023
Academic discipline
FIS/01 (EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (06/03/2023 - 16/06/2023)
Lesson hours
64 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
To have followed the course of Analisi Matematica I and the course of Meccanica
Learning outcomes
Learning the basics of fluid mechanics and classical thermodynamics for states of equilibrium with both a phenomenological and a statistical approach.
Acquisition of methods of analysis and solution of fluid-dynamics and thermodynamics problems.
Course contents
Mechanical properties of fluids. Basics of Thermodynamics, The Zero principle. Calorimetry and Thermometers. The basic problem of Thermodynamics, extensive and intensive Parameters, Equations of State and Processes, ideal and real Gases, The Principles of Thermodynamics, properties of Energy and Entropy, Thermodynamic Potentials, Maxwell Relations and Phase Transitions, Kinetic theory of gases, a brief Summary of Statistical Thermodynamics.
Mechanical properties of fluids and fundamentals of Thermodynamics.
Fluids: static equation and applications. Fluid dynamics: Bernoulli theorem and real fluid equations. Viscosity, stress tensor, laminar motion and Reynolds number.
Thermodynamics: The thermodynamic system, the zero principle, thermometers, ideal gas law. Kinetic theory of ideal gases and real gases. Thermodynamic work, internal energy, heat. First principle. Heat transmission and calorimetry.
Second principle, Carnot theorem and thermodynamic cycles. Clausius theorem and definition of entropy. Entropy and irreversibility.
Introduction to statistical thermodynamics: partition function and statistical interpretation of thermodynamic quantities (entropy, internal energy, work, heat); equipartition theorem. Third principle. Thermodynamic potentials, Maxwell relations and phase transitions.
Examples of application of the main concepts introduced in class; analysis and solution of selected problems.
Teaching methods
Classroom lectures
Classroom experiments for selected in-depth studies
Analysis and solution of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics problems
Reccomended or required readings
R. Feynman,R. Leighton, M. Sands, La fisica di Feynman, Zanichelli, Bologna.
M. W. Zemansky, R.H. Dittman, Heat and thermodynamics, Mc Graw Hill
P. Mazzoldi, M. Nigro e C. Voci, Fisica, Vol I, ed EdiSES, Napoli.
S. Rosati, Fisica generale Vol. 1, CEA
Assessment methods
Written test and oral exam
1) Written test: 1 fluidodynamics problem + 2 thermodynamics problems to be carried out in 3 hours
2) Oral exam: discussions of topics held in class
Further information
The slides (in pdf format) shown in the lesson are provided.
The reference texts for each topic are indicated.
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