Term Project Suggestions

The following are intended to be suggestions. The intent is that you pick a topic in thermal physics and explore it in detail.

  1. Thermometry
  2. Superfluids
  3. The Bose Einstein condensate
  4. Black Hole Thermodynamics
  5. Radiative transfer in stellar atmospheres
  6. The Einstein solid
  7. The Debye solid
  8. High temperature thermodynamics
  9. Legendre transformations
  10. Jacobians in thermodynamics
  11. How to use a thermometer as a barometer
  12. Heat engines
  13. The van der Waals gas
  14. Atmospheric thermodynamics
  15. The derivation of thermodynamic results using information theory (Maxent)
  16. Experiments to numerous to mention