Course Schedule 

                           

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This schedule is very, very, tentative
and may be changed!

We will follow Gould and Tobochnik with additional topics added or skipped as we progress. For the early discussions of thermodynamics we will also read Fermi's text. This schedule has been changed due to the winter storm and is being modified to reflect the impact of the weather. Make-up classes are in blue.

Date   Day Chap

Topics

 Jan 13 M 2 Temperature and Pressure
  15 W 2 Pressure Equation of State/Ideal Gas
17 F 2 No class - Watch OnlineVideos
  20 M   Holiday
  22 W 2 Work/Thermal Processes
  24 F 2 First Law/Internal Energy/Equation of State
  27 M 2 Heat Capacities/Adiabatic Processes
  29 W   Class cancelled due to snow/ice
  31 F   Class cancelled due to snow/ice
 Feb   3 M

2

Second Law/Thermodynamic Temperature
    5 W 2 Heat Engines/Carnot Cycle
    7 F 2 Entropy Changes
  10 M 2 Thermodynamic Relations, Pressure, etc
12 W 2 Free Energy/Thermodynamic Potentials
  14 F 2 Thermodynamic Derivatives
  17 M   Exam I
  19 W 3 Introduction to Probability
  21 F 3 Meaning of Probability/Uncertainty
  24 M 3 Functional Form/Maximum Uncertainty
  26 W 3 Bayes' Thm/Magnetic Moments
  28 F 3 Binomial Distribution
        Break Mar 1-9
Mar 10 M 3/4 Statistical Mechanics/Einstein Solids
  12 W 4 Counting Microstates
  14 F 4 No Class
  17 M 4 Noninteracting Particles
  19 W 4 Microcanonical Ensemble
21 F 4 Canonical Ensemble
  22 S 4 Canonical Ensemble Applications
  24 M   Exam II
  26 W 4 Grand Canonical Ensemble
28 F 5 Magnetic Systems
  3:00 PM Thermodynamics of Magnetic Systems
  31 M

5

Ising Model I
 Apr   2 W 5 Ising Model II
    4 F 6 Classical Statistical Mechanics
    7 M 6 Entropy for Many Particle Systems
  9 W 6 Equipartition Theorem
11 F 6 Maxwell Distribution/Occupation Numbers
14 M

6

Bose and Fermi Statistics
  16 W

6

Density of States/Photons/Particles
  17 R   Break
  18 F   Break
21 M

6

Blackbody Radiation
23 W

6

Heat Capacity
25 F   Exam III
28 M 7 Chemical Potential
30 W 7 Phase Equilibria
May   1 R   Epilogue
May   7 W   Final Exam, 8:00

 

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E-Mail: Dr. Russell Herman Last Updated: April 11, 2014