Learning temperature, pressure, and chemical potential
I have updated sections of my notes on thermodynamics. A few thoughts on learning are collected here. Of our world the following facts are known:
thermodynamics
Lecturer Positions in Mechanics/Materials at Univ of Mich-Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ Joint Institute
Lecturers - University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute
Free Energy
For a system in thermal contact with the rest of the world, we have described three quantities: entropy, energy, and temperature. We have also described the idea of a constraint internal to the system, and associated this constraint to an internal variable.
Strain gradient plasticity: the flow rule of Fleck and Hutchinson violates thermodynamics ?
A recent paper on JMPS has seriously questioned the foundation of the SGP theory of Fleck and Hutchinson. The matter is not simple, but is it a good bench test for imechanica to discuss?
For a nanosystem the second law of thermodynamics is still effective
For a nanosystem,the total number of atoms(say less than 100),I want to knom In such a system the second law of thermodynamics is still effective ?
thermodynamics of nanoscale small systems
How to measure the temperature of a nanotube?
Chemical potential
Pressure
So far we have been mainly concerned with systems of a single independent variable: energy (node/4878). We now consider a system of two independent variables: energy and volume. A thermodynamic model of the system is prescribed by entropy as a function of energy and volume.
The partial derivatives of the function give the temperature and the pressure. This fact leads to an experimental procedure to determine the function for a given system.
The laws of ideal gases and osmosis are derived. The two phenomena illustrate entropic elasticity.
The Boltzmann Distribution
- A small system in thermal contact with a large system
- The Boltzmann factor
- Partition function
- The probability for a system in thermal equilibrium with a reservoir to be in a specific state
- The probability for a system in thermal equilibrium with a reservoir to be in a configuration
- Thermal fluctuation of an RNA molecule
- A matter of words
Return to the outline of Statistical Mechanics.