熱物理二 
<br>Thermal Statistics (II)
<br>(Spring, 2012)
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<br>教科書
<br>Thermal Physics (second edition, 1980) by Kittel and Kroemer.
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<br>一般來說，教科書最好不要太舊，才能跟上科學進展的腳步。很認真地讀了幾本新的教科書，發現 Kittel and 
<br>Kroemer 寫的熱物理真是經典，也很對我的胃口。當然這和作者都在美國的加州大學任教無關，尤其與 Kroemer 在
<br>風光明媚的 Santa Barbara 教書這件事，特別沒有關係。
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<br>背景知識
<br>General Physics:
<br>Temperature, entropy and heat. 
<br>Bolzmann distribution. 
<br>Stationary states (energy levels) in quantum physics.
<br>Applied Math:
<br>Partial differentiation. 
<br>Probability theory.
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<br>熱統計物理所需的背景知識不多，如果你之前很混，這是你東山再起的好時機。但這並不是說這門課很容易，因為上
<br>課內容包含很多新觀念，所以需要相當多的時間才能消化。教科書後面的習題一定要做，不然你跟得上的機率很小。
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<br>期末成績
<br>學期共有三次評量：兩次期中考與期末考。三次分數加總後，其平均值為期末原始分數，視全班學習狀況於整體比較
<br>後，以等第制給定最後的成績。
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<br>每次考試有6題，每題佔20分，共120分，4題為計算題，1題為論述題，另有1題加分題。計算題由課本習題改寫(一
<br>定會改到背答案是沒用的，所以請不要白費力氣)，事先演練並徹底瞭解習題，將有效提昇你的分數。論述題請於考前
<br>多多練習，加分題是由上課內容延伸而來，可以做為學習的指標。
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<br>上課時間
<br>每星期上兩次80分鐘的課，上課時間如下：
<br>Mondays (10:10-11:30)
<br>Wednesdays (08:30-09:50)
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<br>上課進度
<br>下列為預估上課進度與內容，實際進度將視上課狀況調整，請定期瀏覽網頁上的最新消息與課程更新。
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<br>Week 1
<br>Feb 20 (Mon) L1: heat engine (Chap 8)
<br>Feb 22 (Wed) L2: Carnot cycle (Chap 8)
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<br>Week 2
<br>Feb 27 (Mon) 彈性放假
<br>Feb 29 (Wed) L3: the second law (Chap 8)
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<br>Week 3
<br>Mar 5 (Mon) L4: chemical and magnetic works (Chap 8)
<br>Mar 7 (Wed) L5: Gibbs free energy (Chap 8)
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<br>Week 4
<br>Mar 12 (Mon) L6: Clausius-Claperon equation (Chap 9)
<br>Mar 14 (Wed) L7: van der Waals equation of state (Chap 9)
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<br>Week 5
<br>Mar 19 (Mon) L8: ferromagnetism (Chap 9)
<br>Mar 21 (Wed) L9: Landau theory of phase transition (Chap 9)
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<br>Week 6
<br>Mar 26 (Mon) 1st midterm (Chap 8-10)
<br>Mar 28 (Wed) 期中考卷檢討
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<br>Week 7
<br>Apr 2 (Mon) 校際活動週
<br>Apr 4 (Mon) 民族掃墓節
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<br>Week 8
<br>Apr 9 (Mon) L10: solubility gap in binary mixtures (Chap 11)
<br>Apr 11 (Wed) L11: liquid/solid mixture (Chap 11)
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<br>Week 9
<br>Apr 16 (Mon) L12: Joule-Thomson effect (Chap 12)
<br>Apr 18 (Wed) L13: quest for absolute zero (Chap 12)
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<br>Week 10
<br>Apr 23 (Mon) L14: electrons and holes (Chap 13)
<br>Apr 25 (Wed) L15: n-type and p-type semiconductors (Chap 13)
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<br>Week 11
<br>Apr 30 (Mon) L16: p-n junction (Chap 13)
<br>May 2 (Wed) L17: non-equilibrium semiconductors (Chap 13)
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<br>Week 12
<br>May 7 (Mon) 2nd midterm (Chap 11-13)
<br>May 9 (Wed) 期中考卷檢討
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<br>Week 13
<br>May 14 (Mon) L18: kinetic theory for ideal gas (Chap 14)
<br>May 16 (Wed) L19: Fick’s law for diffusion (Chap 14)
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<br>Week 14
<br>May 21 (Mon) L20: law of rarefied gases (Chap 14)
<br>May 23 (Wed) L21: Boltzmann transport equation (Chap 14)
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<br>Week 15
<br>May 28 (Mon) L22: Einstein relation in Brownian motion (Chap 14)
<br>May 30 (Wed) L23: Fokker-Plank equation (Chap 14)
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<br>Week 16
<br>Jun 4 (Mon) L24: Navier-Stokes equation (Chap 15)
<br>Jun 6 (Wed) L25: heat conduction (Chap 15)
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<br>Week 17
<br>Jun 11 (Mon) L26: sound propagation (Chap 15)
<br>Jun 13 (Wed) L27: quantum transport (Chap 15)
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<br>Week 18 (Final Week)
<br>Jun 18 (Mon) final (Chap14-15)
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