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.
- Thermometry
- Superfluids
- The Bose Einstein condensate
- Black Hole Thermodynamics
- Radiative transfer in stellar atmospheres
- The Einstein solid
- The Debye solid
- High temperature thermodynamics
- Legendre transformations
- Jacobians in thermodynamics
- How to use a thermometer as a barometer
- Heat engines
- The van der Waals gas
- Atmospheric thermodynamics
- The derivation of thermodynamic results using information theory (Maxent)
- Experiments to numerous to mention