Phys 2053. Fluids and Thermal Physics

Instructors:

Course: Anand Yethiraj

Lab:

Mathematics 1001 and Physics 1051 which may be taken concurrently.

All course information and grades will be on the Phys 2053 D2L site.
Many of the assignments will be CAPA assignments. CAPA is the computer based assignment system (see CAPA Website). You will need your MUN number and a password to access these. The password for the first CAPA assignment will be in D2L in the "Grades" section.
A supplemental exam is available for this course, as outlined in the calender.
Students repeating the course may carry their lab mark over from the previous course. You must make arrangements with me to do this. It is not done automatically.
Medical Notes- Students who request permission to drop courses, to withdraw from University studies, to have examinations deferred or to obtain other waivers of University, departmental or course regulations based on medical grounds are required by the University to produce a note from a physician in support of their request. Such notes must be sufficiently specific to allow a proper consideration of the student's case.
A skeleton copy of notes of what was covered in class will be placed on the course D2L website for each class. Any updates to course information will also be placed there. Students will be expected to check the D2L site frequently.

"Principles of Physics", Fourth Edition, Serway, Jewett. Thomson Publishers.

Solids, fluids and surfaces. Fluid statics, fluid motion.
Solids and Fluid Statics I: Pressure, density, buoyancy, Archimedes principle. Solids and Fluids Statics II: Surface and Interfacial Phenomena. Fluids Dynamics I: Steady flow, Bernoulli principle, Viscous Flow. Fluid Dynamics II: Reynolds number, turbulence. Mixing & entropy.
Temperature, heating and thermal equilibrium. First law of thermodynamics. Molecular basis of thermal physics.
Temperature, heating, thermal equilibrium. Kinetic Theory of gases, Equipartition of Energy, Equations of State. Work, Energy transfer, First law. Thermal expansion & conductivity.
Entropy.
The second law of thermodynamics. Thermal and mechanical properties of materials.
Engines, heat pumps.
Engines, Carnot Cycle, heat pump. Perpetual motion machines.
Other Topics.
The approach to absolute zero.