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This document is a tutorial for PHY302: Statistical Physics, focusing on thermodynamics concepts. It includes problems related to heat pumps, entropy changes in heat engines, changes in internal energy and entropy of water, paramagnetic systems in magnetic fields, and a state equation for a new matter. The tutorial is designed for students to apply thermodynamic principles and calculations in various scenarios.

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This document is a tutorial for PHY302: Statistical Physics, focusing on thermodynamics concepts. It includes problems related to heat pumps, entropy changes in heat engines, changes in internal energy and entropy of water, paramagnetic systems in magnetic fields, and a state equation for a new matter. The tutorial is designed for students to apply thermodynamic principles and calculations in various scenarios.

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Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence

Department of Physics

PHY302 : Statistical Physics–


Tutorial - 2 : Review of Thermodynamics

Instructor: Dr. Subhra Sen Gupta

Date - 30/01/2025

1. Your hostel building at a temperature T (in K) is heated by an ideal heat pump which uses
the atmosphere at T0 (in K) as heat source. The pump consumes power W and the building
loses heat at a rate α(T − T0 ). What is the equilibrium temperature Te of the building?

2. Large heat reservoirs are available at 900 K (H) and 300 K (C).
(a) Let us remove 100 cal of heat from reservoir H and add to C. What is the change in entropy
of the universe?
(b) A reversible heat engine operates between H and C. For each 100 cal of heat removed from
H, what work is done, and what heat is added to C?
(c) What is the entropy change of the universe in the process of part (b) above?
(d) A real heat engine is operated as a heat pump removing heat from C and adding heat to H.
What can be said about the entropy change in the universe produced by the heat pump?

3. An electrical resistor heats one kilogram of water from 20o C to 99o C at constant atmospheric
pressure. Calculate:
(a) The change in internal energy of the water.
(b) The change in entropy of the water.
(c) The factor by which the number of accessible quantum states of the water is increased.
(d) The maximum mechanical work achievable by using this water as a heat reservoir to run
an engine whose heat sink is at 20o C.

4. A paramagnetic system in a uniform magnetic field H is thermally insulated from the sur-
roundings. It has an induced magnetization M = aH/T and a heat capacity cH = b/T 2 at
the constant H, where a and b are constants and T is the temperature. How will the system’s
temperature change when H is quasi-statically reduced to zero? In order to have the final
temperature change by a factor of 2 from the initial temperature, how strong should be the
initial H?

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5. The state equation of a new matter is

p = AT 3 /V

where p,V, and T are the pressure, volume and temperature, respectively, and A is a constant.
The internal energy of the matter is

U = BT n ln(V /V0 ) + f (T )

where B, n and V0 are all constants, f (T ) only depends on the temperature. Find B and n.

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