https://gdpark.blog/tags/heat-capacity/Recent content in Heat Capacity on gdpark.blogHugoenSun, 24 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-02-chapter-3-practice-problems/Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-02-chapter-3-practice-problems/Stumbling through heat, heat capacity, and all their flavors (constant-volume, constant-pressure…) with way too many question marks before tiptoeing into probability.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-17-chapter-11-practice-problems/Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-17-chapter-11-practice-problems/Working through Chapter 11 thermo problems — isothermal expansion of a monatomic ideal gas and showing those Cv/Cp identities with γ, step by step.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-19-chapter-12-practice-problems/Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-19-chapter-12-practice-problems/Chapter 12 practice problems working through adiabatic expansion, ideal gas state equations, and partial derivative relations for heat capacity — some surprisingly simple!https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-29-isobaric-expansivity-adiabatic-expansivity-isothermal-compre/Sat, 09 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-29-isobaric-expansivity-adiabatic-expansivity-isothermal-compre/Wrapping up the chapter with a casual intro to susceptibility — covering isochoric/isobaric heat capacities and all four flavors of expansivity and compressibility.https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-35-partition-functions-for-a-two-level-system-and-the-harmonic/Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/thermal-statistical-35-partition-functions-for-a-two-level-system-and-the-harmonic/We check that the partition function formulas for U, C, and S actually make physical sense using a simple two-level system — and yep, at 0 K everything ends up in the ground state. Ohong~!