Reading Assignments | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lecture Date | Brief Description | Reading assignment for next class |
| Wednesday, 17 January Lecture 1 |
Discussion of course syllabus
Temperature and Equilibrium |
Schroeder 1.1-1.3 |
| Friday, 19 January Lecture 2 |
Simple Derivation of Ideal Gas Law Equipartition Theorem |
Schroeder 1.4-1.5 |
| Monday, 22 January Lecture 3 |
Heat and Work | Schroeder 1.6 |
| Wednesday, 24 January |
NO LECTURE | |
| Friday, 26 January Lecture 4 |
Heat Capacities and Calorimetry | Schroeder 2.1-2.2 |
| Friday, 26 January Lecture 5 (4-5pm) |
Random Walk in 1D Binomial Distribution |
* |
Monday, 29 January |
NO LECTURE | |
| Wednesday, 31 January | NO LECTURE | |
| Friday, 2 February Lecture 6 |
Application of Binomial Distribution |
* |
| Friday, 2 February Lecture 7 (4-5pm) |
Two State Systems Einstein solid: State counting |
Schroeder 2.3 |
Monday, 5 February |
Einstein solids: Maximum Probable State |
* |
| Wednesday, 7 February Lecture 9 |
Einstein solids: Dist'n of States | Schroeder 2.4 |
| Friday, 9 February Lecture 10 |
Stirling's Approximation | Schroeder 2.5 |
| Friday, 9 February Lecture 11 (4-5pm) |
Ideal Gas: Multiplicity and Phase Space | * |
| Monday, 12 February Lecture 12 |
Ideal Gas: Interacting Systems | Schroeder 2.6 |
| Wednesday, 14 February Lecture 13 |
Ideal Gas: Sacker-Tetrode Equation | * |
| Friday, 16 February Lecture 14 |
Ideal Gas: Entropy and Processes | Schroeder 3.1 |
| Monday, 19 February Lecture 15 |
Temperature and Entropy | Schroeder 3.2 |
| Wednesday, 21 February Lecture 16 |
Heat and Entropy 3rd Law of Thermodynamics |
Schroeder 3.3, 3.4 |
| Friday, 23 February Lecture 17 |
Paramagnetism,Pressure and Entropy The Thermodynamic Identity |
* |
| Monday, 26 February Lecture 18 |
Review for Exam 1 | Schroeder 3.5 |
| Wednesday, 28 February Lecture 19 |
Chemical Potential | * |
| Friday, 2 March 3:00-4:50 PM |
Midterm Exam 1 | Schroeder 4.1-4.2 |
| Monday, 5 March Lecture 20 |
Heat Engines and the Carnot Cycle Refrigerators |
Schroeder 4.3-4.4 |
| Wednesday, 7 March Lecture 21 |
Real Heat Engines and Refrigerators The Joule-Thomson Process |
Schroeder 5.1 |
| Friday, 9 March Lecture 22 |
Helmholtz and Gibbs Free Energies Thermodynamic Potentials |
Schroeder 5.2 |
| Monday, 12 March Lecture 23 |
Applications of Free Energies Free Energy and Equilibrium |
* |
| Wednesday, 14 March Lecture 24 |
Thermodynamic Identities | Schroeder 5.3 |
| Friday, 16 March Lecture 25 |
Phase Transformations and the Clausius-Clapeyron Relation |
* |
| Monday, 19 March Lecture 26 |
The van der Waals Model | Schroeder 5.4 |
| Wednesday, 21 March Lecture 27 |
Phase Transformations of Mixtures I | * |
| Friday, 23 March Lecture 28 |
Phase Transformations of Mixtures II | Schroeder 5.5 |
| Monday, 2 April Lecture 29 |
Dilute Solutions: Osmotic Pressure | * |
| Wednesday, 4 April Lecture 30 |
Review for Exam 2 | * |
| Friday, 6 April 3:00-4:50 PM |
Midterm Exam 2 | * |
Monday, 9 April |
Dilute Solutions: Boiling Pt Elevation | Schroeder 5.6 |
| Wednesday, 11 April Lecture 32 |
Chemical Equilibrium: pH | Schroeder 6.1 |
| Friday, 13 April Lecture 33 |
Boltzmann Statistics and the Partition Function |
Schroeder 6.2,6.3 |
| Monday, 16 April Lecture 34 |
Applications of the Partition Function Equipartition Theorem |
Schroeder 6.4,6.5,6.6 |
| Wednesday, 18 April Lecture 35 |
Maxwell Speed Distribution General Partition Functions |
Schroeder 6.7, 7.1, 7.2 |
| Friday, 20 April Lecture 36 |
Grand Partition Function Quantum Gases |
Schroeder 7.2 |
| Monday, 23 April Lecture 37 |
Quantum Distribution Functions |
Schroeder 7.3,7.4 |
| Wednesday, 25 April Lecture 38 |
Degenerate Fermi Gas T=0 |
* |
| Friday, 27 April Lecture 39 |
Guest Lecture: Prof. J. Nagle Quark-gluon Plasma |
Schroeder 7.3 |
| Monday, 30 April Lecture 40 |
Degenerate Fermi Gas: Non-zero T | * |
| Wednesday, 2 May Lecture 41 |
Review for Final Exam | * |
| Friday, 4 May 3:00-5:30 pm |
Final Exam | |