Annexure CD 01

FORMAT FOR COURSE CURRICULUM

Course Title: Thermal Physics

Course Code:

Credit Units: 3

P/S

SW/F
W

TOTAL
CREDIT
UNITS
3

Course Objectives: The purpose of this course is to make students familiar with fundamental knowledge of heat and
thermodynamics.
Pre-requisites: N/A

Student Learning Outcomes:

Student will have a firm grasp of fundamental principles of thermal physics.
They will be able to demonstrate the knowledge of the thermodynamic system, concept of temperature and laws of thermodynamics.
Students should be able to simplify and model real systems in a physically reasonable and tractable fashion.
Utilize the formal and mathematical techniques learnt in the course to predict various properties of the system at hand.

Course Contents/Syllabus:
Weightage (%)

Module-I: Kinetic Theory of Gases

Kinetic model
Brownian motion
Vander Waals gas
Equation of state
Nature of Vander Waals forces
Maxwell-Boltzmann Law of distribution of molecular velocities & transport phenomenon (Viscosity, thermal
conductivity and diffusion)
Module-II: Thermodynamics

20%

20%

 Thermodynamic systems
Macroscopic and microscopic variables
Zeroth law of thermodynamics
thermodynamical equilibrium
thermodynamical state
concept of temperature
heat and work and their path-dependence
thermal processes
First law of Thermodynamics and internal energy

Module-III: Carnot cycle

Carnot cycle
Carnot Engine and Refrigerator
Reversible and irreversible processes
Carnots Theorem
Thermodynamical scale of temperature
Entropy
Calculation of entropy in various processes
Entropy and unavailable energy
Physical significance of entropy
Principle of the increase of entropy
Second law of thermodynamics
Conditions of natural changes
Intensive and Extensive systems
Thermodynamic potentials and Maxwells equations
Clausius-Clapeyrons equation
Triple Point
Clausius theorem
Clausius inequality
Joule Thomson effect
Module-IV: Radiation
Black-body radiation
Kirchhoffs Law

35%

25%

Stefan-Boltzmann law
solar constant and temperature of sun
temperature of non-black bodies,
Distribution of energy in the spectrum of black body radiation
Adiabatic expansion of black body radiation
Wiens displacement law
Weins formula
Rayleigh-Jeans law
Plancks law

Pedagogy for Course Delivery:

The course will be conducted in the form of lectures and tutorials. Quiz/Viva sessions will be organized for students. In addition to it students will be
given home assignments.
Lab/ Practicals details, if applicable: N/A
List of Experiments: N/A

Assessment/ Examination Scheme:

Theory L/T (%)

Lab/Practical/Studio (%)

Total

100%

N/A

100%

Theory Assessment (L&T):

Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment

End Term Examination

Components (Drop down)

Weightage (%)

10%

10%

5%

5%

70%

Lab/ Practical/ Studio Assessment: N/A

Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment
Components (Drop down
Weightage (%)

Text & References:

1. A treatise on Heat- Saha and Srivastava
2. Advanced Textbook on Heat P. K. Chakravarty
3. Heat and Thermodynamics- Zemansky & Dittman
4. Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory and Statistical Thermodynamics Sears & Salinger.
5. Heat Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics-Brij Lal & N. Subrahmanyam
Any other Study Material:
Thermal Physics by B. K. Agrawal

End Term Examination