Thermodynamics Laboratory
Code: 100158 ECTS Credits: 5| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500097 Physics | OB | 3 |
Contact
- Name:
- Santiago Suriņach Cornet
- Email:
- santiago.surinyach@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
They do not exist
Objectives and Contextualisation
The objectives of the practices of the Thermodynamics Laboratory can be summarized in:
1. Apply the fundamental laws and the theoretical principles of Thermodynamics.
2. Familiarize the student with an experimental subject: importance of the instrumentation in the design of experiments, use of measurement devices, acquisition of data in the laboratory, introduction in the methods of analysis of data, use of computers in the lab, etc.
3. Awakening in the student a critical mind regarding the level of confidence of their measurements, calculations and the interpretation of the results.
4. Motivate the student in the bibliographic research to interpret the experimental results and / or deepen other approaches to a particular experiment.
5. Promote experimental work and scientific discussion in a group
Competences
- Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
- Communicate complex information in an effective, clear and concise manner, either orally, in writing or through ICTs, and before both specialist and general publics
- Develop strategies for analysis, synthesis and communication that allow the concepts of physics to be transmitted in educational and dissemination-based contexts
- Formulate and address physical problems identifying the most relevant principles and using approximations, if necessary, to reach a solution that must be presented, specifying assumptions and approximations
- Plan and perform, using appropriate methods, study, research or experimental measure and interpret and present the results.
- Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Use computer tools (programming languages and software) suitable for the study of physical problems
- Use critical reasoning, show analytical skills, correctly use technical language and develop logical arguments
- Work independently, have personal initiative and self-organisational skills in achieving results, in planning and in executing a project
- Working in groups, assume shared responsibilities and interact professionally and constructively with others, showing absolute respect for their rights.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse and assess the adequacy of the assemblies prepared and carried out, in order to obtain measurements and the desired results.
- Analyse the influence of various parameters on the simulation of an experiment.
- Communicate complex information in an effective, clear and concise manner, either orally, in writing or through ICTs, in front of both specialist and general publics.
- Correctly assess the uncertainty associated with a measure or set of measures.
- Describe physical phenomena, identify variables, analyse the influence, presenting the results and conclusions of the work developed in a clear and precise manner.
- Describe the function and manner of operation of the measuring instruments used.
- Determine and measure the variables that describe a physical system.
- Discriminate to the most important dependencies and draw the most conclusions from a set of experimental measurements.
- Explain the explicit or implicit code of practice of one's own area of knowledge.
- Foster discussion and critical thinking, evaluating the precision and characteristics of the results obtained.
- Identify the social, economic and environmental implications of academic and professional activities within one's own area of knowledge.
- Suitably present the results of a series of measures through graphs and perform linear regressions.
- Use basic programmes to write reports and carry out basic data processing.
- Use critical reasoning, show analytical skills, correctly use technical language and develop logical arguments
- Use digital sensors for measuring magnitudes.
- Work independently, take initiative itself, be able to organize to achieve results and to plan and execute a project.
- Working in groups, assume shared responsibilities and interact professionally and constructively with others, showing absolute respect for their rights.
- Write and present the results and conclusions of experimental work with rigor and conciseness.
Content
THEORY PROGRAM: (1 credit) (4 theory sessions of 2 hours)
- Computer and Laboratory
- Phase changes and phase diagrams of unary systems
- The temperature and its measurement
- The vacuum: obtaining and measuring
- The heat: propagation mechanisms. Calorimetry
PROGRAM OF LABORATORY PRACTICES: (4 credits) (7 laboratory sessions + 1 session of recovery)
I.- Heat propagation
II.- Calorimetry. Determination of specific calories
III.- Ideal gases
IV.- Real gases
V.- Phase transitions
VI.- Partial molar properties
VII.- Vacuum techniques, thermoelectric phenomena and thermal machines
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| laboratory practices | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 15, 17 |
| lectures | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 12, 15 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| personal working | 35 | 1.4 | 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18 |
| team working | 47 | 1.88 | 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18 |
Lectures:
During the first weeks of the course, there will be between 3 and 4 introductory lectures in the Thermodynamics laboratory with the subject theory program. These lectures will consist of a set of presentations in PowerPoint. Students will have this content in sufficient time to follow the classes properly. Some videos related to the subject of the laboratory will also be screened.
Laboratory practices:
The students, in groups of 3 students (if possible formed by members of both genders), will complete a total of 7 laboratory sessions of approximately 3 hours and a half, during which 10 to 11 different practices will be carried out. Students will previously have the scripts of the practices for their preparation. There will be an additional laboratory session for the recovery of practices.
There are two different categories of practices: a) collective report practices (all practices except three) to present, through the Virtual Campus, a single report by group of practices after two weeks, natural, once the experience has been realized; and b) personal report practices (each member of the team will choose a report to be made) to present, through the Virtual Campus, at the end of the teaching period prior to the exam period.
The personal report must consist of the following parts: introduction and objectives, results and discussion, conclusions, bibliography and an annex showing the expressions used to evaluate uncertainties. Collective reports will only collect the results and their discussion, as well as the conclusions of the experiment.
The correction, by the teachers of the laboratory, of the collective reports, will allow to detect conceptual errors in its realization. The students will have an extra period of time in order to return the unsatisfactory reports.
All the results obtained in the laboratory must be correctly presented in tables with the uncertainties and the corresponding units. The uncertainties must have at most two significant figures, the final resultsmust be rounded out based on their uncertainties. The graphics must be presented with a title, the magnitudes represented, the corresponding units, the bars of uncertainties and the results of the adjustments if applicable.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| group work | 40% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18 |
| personal work | 35% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18 |
| written exam | 25% | 3 | 0.12 | 2, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16 |
| Bloc/Apartat/Tema | Pes | Descripció |
| lab personal report | 35% | work done by the student in the laboratory and evaluation of the personal lab report presented |
| team working | 40% | work carried out by the group in the laboratory and evaluation of the lab collective reports presented |
| Examen escrit | 25% |
evaluation on the basic concepts explained in the previous lectures and on the basic concepts of the laboratory practices carried out. There is no repesca test. (It is mandatory to perform all laboratory practices, and the presentation of all reports of them, to have the right to take the exam, minimum grade of the written test to make average: 3.5) |
The student will be considered evaluated if he / she has submitted to more than 35% of the final grade of evaluation
Unique assessmen
Students who have taken the single assessment modality will have to take a final test which will consist of a concept exam on the explained theory and laboratory practices. When he has finished, he will hand in a report on some of the practices listed as "personal" and four reports on some of the practices listed as collective. These tests will be carried out on the same day, time and place as the tests for the continuous assessment modality.
The student's grade will be the weighted average of the three previous activities, where the concept exam will account for 25% of the grade, the personal practice report 35% and the rest of the collective reports the 40%
Bibliography
- M.D. Baró, G. Orriols, F. Pi, R. Pintó i S. Suriñach. Tècniques Experimentals en Física. Col. Materials, 37. Servei de Publicacions de la UAB, Barcelona,1997.
- G.Garcia, J.Bisquet, M.J.Hernández, S.Bal·le, Ll.Mañosa, Introducció a l’experimentació, Col. Ciències experimentals, Servei de Publicacions Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, 1999
- M.D. Baró, S. Bordas, J.A.Ibañez, J.E.Llebot, S.Suriñach. Experiencias de Termodinámica, Servicio de Publicaciones de la U.A.B. Bellaterra (Barcelona), 1985
- Notes of theory (Campus Virtual)
Software
This subject does not use any particular software
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 1 | Catalan | first semester | afternoon |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 2 | Catalan | first semester | afternoon |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 3 | Catalan | first semester | afternoon |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 4 | Catalan | first semester | afternoon |
| (PLAB) Practical laboratories | 5 | Catalan | first semester | afternoon |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |