Schedule
This schedule is tentative. We will deviate from it as necessary as the course proceeds…
| Date | Topic | Schroeder Reading Due | Suggested Moore Reading Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, August 23 | Intro | none | |
| Wednesday, August 25 | Temperature, Ideal Gas Law | preface & pp. 1-9 | |
| Friday, August 27 | Equipartition, Heat & Work | pp. 10-19 | T1 |
| Monday, August 30 | Compression, PV diagram | pp. 20-27 | T7 (out of order, but helpful) |
| Wednesday, September 1 | Heat Capacity & Enthalpy | pp. 28-36 | |
| Friday, September 3 | Combinatorics | pp. 49-53 | T2 |
| Monday, September 6 | no class | ||
| Wednesday, September 8 | Einstein Solids | pp. 53-67 | |
| Friday, September 10 | Ideal Gas Revisited | pp. 68-74 | T3 |
| Monday, September 13 | Entropy | pp. 74-84 | |
| Wednesday, September 15 | Temperature & Entropy | pp. 85-91 | T8 (out of order, but helpful) |
| Friday, September 17 | Entropy & Heat | pp. 92-97 | |
| Monday, September 20 | Paramagnetism | pp. 98-108 | |
| Wednesday, September 22 | P, S, & the thermodynamic identity | pp. 108-114 | |
| Friday, September 24 | Chemical Potential | pp. 115-121 | |
| Monday, September 27 | Heat Engines | pp. 122-127 | T9 (out of order, but helpful) |
| Wednesday, September 29 | Midterm | none | |
| Friday, October 1 | Refrigerators | pp. 127-130 | |
| Monday, October 4 | Free Energy | pp. 149-160 | |
| Wednesday, October 6 | Free Energy; Intensive vs. Extensive | pp. 161-166 | |
| Friday, October 8 | no class | ||
| Monday, October 11 | no class | ||
| Wednesday, October 13 | Phase Transformations & van der waals | pp. 166-184 | T4 |
| Friday, October 15 | buffer | TBD | |
| Monday, October 18 | Boltzmann Factor & Partition Function | pp. 220-228 | |
| Wednesday, October 20 | Expectation Values | pp. 229-238 | T5 |
| Friday, October 22 | Equipartition revisited | pp. 238-241 | |
| Monday, October 25 | Maxwell Distribution | pp. 242-246 | T6 |
| Wednesday, October 27 | More Partition Functions | pp. 247-256 | T7 (revisit for continuity/review) |
| Friday, October 29 | Gibbs Factor, Bosons, & Fermions | pp. 257-265 | T8 (revisit for continuity/review) |
| Monday, November 1 | Bosons, & Fermions | pp. 266-282 | T9 (revisit for continuity/review) |
| Wednesday, November 3 | Bosons, & Fermions (continued) | none | |
| Friday, November 5 | buffer | T.B.D. | |
| Monday, November 8 | Midterm | none | |
| Wednesday, November 10 | Blackbody Radiation | pp. 288-307 | |
| Friday, November 12 | Debye Theory | pp. 307-314 | |
| Monday, November 15 | Bose-Einstein Condensation | pp. 315-326 | |
| Wednesday, November 17 | buffer | ||
| Friday, November 19 | The Ising Model | pp. 327, 339-345 | |
| Monday, November 22 | Monte Carlo Simulation | pp. 346-356 | T10 |
| Wednesday, November 24 | no class | ||
| Friday, November 26 | no class | ||
| Monday, November 29 | Special Topics | T.B.D. | |
| Wednesday, December 1 | Special Topics | T.B.D. | |
| Friday, December 3 | Special Topics | T.B.D. | |
| Monday, December 6 | Final Exam (1:15pm) | none |