Thermo Pages

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Pages being developed for the thermodynamics portion of Phys 131.

 

These pages are open to students and should not be commented on directly:

• Atomic and Molecular forces
• Interatomic forces   
• Chemical bonding
• Chemical energy
• Kinetic theory
• First law of thermodynamics

 

 

These pages are still in draft form:

• Motivating the Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Diffusion:  A Mechanistic View
• Some Thoughts about Probability
• The Second Law of Thermodynamics:  A Probabilistic Law
• Why entropy is logarithmic
• Consequences of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
• The Micro and the Macro
• Boltzmann distribution 
• Enthalpy
• Gibbs free energy
• Boltzmann distribution and Gibbs free energy

 

Problems:

• Muscle contraction
• Temperature regulation 
• DNA Entropy
• Evolution and the second law
• Diffusion Estimation Problems
• Fick's Law and Evolution
• Membrane Self-Assembly 
• How a Kinesin Walks
• Insane in the membrane, part 1: Oil and water
• Insane in the membrane, part 2: Lipid bilayers