如果說同學的筆記是上課的精華，那老師的筆記就是精華中的精華! 林秀豪教授的熱統計物筆記公布囉! 想知道幽默風趣的豪豬教授的筆記有多可愛嗎? 想 知道80分鐘的課程，是如何幻化成幽默的卡通語言嗎? Reading the essence of Thermal and Statistical Physics. Professor Hsiu-Hau Lin tells you the story of the 80 min. course with his fun cartoons notes.
教科書
Textbook
| ♠ | Thermal Physics (second edition, 1980) by Kittel and Kroemer. |
一般來說，教科書最好不要太舊，才能跟上科學進展的腳步。很認真地讀了幾本新的教科書，發現 Kittel and Kroemer 寫的熱物理真是經典，也很對我的胃口。當然這和作者都在美國的加州大學任教無關，尤其與 Kroemer 在風光明媚的 Santa Barbara 教書這件事，特別沒有關係。
Generally, the edition of the textbook should be not too old in order to follow the footsteps of progress in science. After finishing reading some new textbooks, I found that Thermal Physics by Kittel and Kroemer is really classic and suitable for me. Of course it has nothing to do with that the authors teach in UC. And it also absolutely has nothing to do with the fact that Kroemer teaches in wonderful Santa Barbara.
背景知識
Prerequisite knowledge
| ♠ | General Physics、Temperature, entropy and heat、Bolzmann distribution、 |
| Stationary states (energy levels) in quantum physics |
熱統計物理所需的背景知識不多，如果你之前很混，這是你東山再起的好時機。但這並不是說這門課很容易，因為上課內容包含很多新觀念，所以需要相當多的時間才能消化。教科書後面的習題一定要做，不然你跟得上的機率很小。
◆ It doesn’t require much background information to learn Thermal and Statistical Physics, if you didn’t pay much attention in class before, it is your chance to start all over. And it is definitely not an easy course because there are so many new concepts. You need much time to understand the concepts and do the assignments at the back of the textbook, or it has slight chance for you to catch up in class.
上課進度
Syllabus
| ♠ | 下列為預估上課進度與內容，實際進度將視上課狀況調 |
| 整，請定期瀏覽網頁上的最新消息與課程更新。 |
| Week 1 | Feb 20 (Mon) L1: heat engine (Chap 8) |
| Feb 22 (Wed) L2: Carnot cycle (Chap 8) | |
| Week 2 | Feb 27 (Mon) Holiday |
| Feb 29 (Wed) L3: the second law (Chap 8) | |
| Week 3 | Mar 5 (Mon) L4: work in different forms (Chap 8) |
| Mar 7 (Wed) L5: Gibbs free energy (Chap 9) | |
| Week 4 | Mar 12 (Mon) L6: Clausius-Claperon equation (Chap 10) |
| Mar 14 (Wed) L7: van der Waals equation of state (Chap 10) | |
| Week 5 | Mar 19 (Mon) L8: ferromagnetism (Chap 10) |
| Mar 21 (Wed) L9: Landau theory of phase transition (Chap 10) | |
| Week 6 | Mar 26 (Mon) 1st midterm (Chap 8-10) |
| Exam questions review | |
| Week 7 | NTHU Activity Week (Holiday) |
| Tomb-Sweeping Day (Holiday) | |
| Week 8 | Apr 9 (Mon) L11: solubility gap in binary mixtures (Chap 11) |
| Apr 11 (Wed) L12: liquid/solid mixture (Chap 11) | |
| Week 9 | Apr 16 (Mon) (BBC video) quest for absolute zero (Chap 12) |
| Apr 18 (Wed) L13: Joule-Thomson effect (Chap 12) | |
| Week 10 | Apr 23 (Mon) L14: electrons and holes (Chap 13) |
| Apr 25 (Wed) L15: n-type and p-type semiconductors (Chap 13) | |
| Week 11 | Apr 30 (Mon) L16: p-n junction (Chap 13) |
| May 2 (Wed) L17: non-equilibrium semiconductors (Chap 13) | |
| Week 12 | May 7 (Mon) 2nd midterm (Chap 11-13) |
| review midterm | |
| Week 13 | May 14 (Mon) L19: kinetic theory for ideal gas (Chap 14) |
| May 16 (Wed) L20: Fick’s law for diffusion (Chap 14) | |
| Week 14 | May 21 (Mon) L21: law of rarefied gases (Chap 14) |
| May 23 (Wed) L22: Boltzmann transport equation 1 (Chap 14) | |
| Week 15 | May 28 (Mon) L23: Boltzmann transport equation 2 (Chap 14) |
| May 30 (Wed) L24: Einstein relation in Brownian motion (Chap 14) | |
| Week 16 | Jun 4 (Mon) L25: Fokker-Plank equation 1 |
| Jun 6 (Wed) L26: Fokker-Plank equation 2 | |
| Week 17 | Jun 11 (Mon) L27: Navier-Stokes equation |
| Jun 13 (Wed) L28: quantum transport | |
| Week 18 | Jun 18 (Mon) final (Chap 14-15) |
| (Final Week) | |
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