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PHYS 213 Syllabus: Summer 2025
Week Date Prelectures Checkpoints Lectures Prelabs/Labs Discussions Homework Exams
1
Monday
7/14/2025
Prelecture 1 Checkpoint 1 Lecture 1: Internal energy
Book: Introduction Chapter 1
Lecture 1 (pdf)
  Discussion 1
Solution
   
Tuesday
7/15/2025
Prelecture 2 Checkpoint 2 Lecture 2: Temperature, heat capacity
Book: Chapters 3 A-D
Lecture 2 (pdf)
No Lab      
Wednesday
7/16/2025
Prelecture 3 Checkpoint 3 Lecture 3: Entropy
Book: Chapter 2, 5
Lecture 3 (pdf) 
  Discussion 2
Solution
Homework 1 due
Homework 2 due
 
Thursday
7/17/2025
Prelecture 4 Checkpoint 4 Lecture 4: Entropy II
Book: Chapter 6
Lecture 4 (pdf)
No Lab      
Friday
7/18/2025
No Classes    
2
Monday
7/21/2025
Prelecture 5 Checkpoint 5 Lecture 5: Kinetic theory of the ideal gas
Book: Chapter 3
Lecture 5 (pdf)
  Discussion 3
Solution
Homework 3 due
Homework 4 due
 
Tuesday
7/22/2025
Prelecture 6 Checkpoint 6 Lecture 6: Quasistatic processes and engines
Book: Chapters 4 A-F
Lecture 6 (pdf)
Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Ideal Gas Law
     
Wednesday
7/23/2025
    Review for Exam 1
Exam 1 Review
  Discussion 4
Solution
Homework 5 due
 

HOUR EXAM

(Units 1-5)

Thursday
7/24/2025
Prelecture 7 Checkpoint 7 Lecture 7: Thermodynamic cycles
Book: Chapter 4 E-F
Lecture 7 (pdf)
No Lab    
Friday
7/25/2025
No Classes    
3
Monday
7/28/2025
Prelecture 8 Checkpoint 8 Lecture 8: Gibbs free energy: equilibrium in contact with a bath
Book: Chapters 10E
Lecture 8 (pdf) 
  Discussion 5
Solution
Homework 6 due
Homework 7 due
 
Tuesday
7/29/2025
Prelecture 9 Checkpoint 9 Lecture 9: Chemical potential and phase diagrams

Lecture 9 (pdf) 
Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Thermal Properties
of Materials
     
Wednesday
7/30/2025
Prelecture 10 Checkpoint 10 Lecture 10: Ideal Solutions
Lecture 10 (pdf) 
  Discussion 6
Solution
Homework 8 due
Homework 9 due
 
Thursday
7/31/2025
Prelecture 11 Checkpoint 11 Lecture 11: Microscopic probabilities: Boltzmann
Book: Chapters 8
Lecture 11 (pdf) 
No Lab      
Friday
8/1/2025
No Classes    
4
Monday
8/4/2025
Prelecture 12 Checkpoint 12 Lecture 12: Boltzmann examples
Book: Chapters 9
Lecture 12 (pdf)
  Discussion 7
Solution
Homework 10 due
Homework 11 due
 
Tuesday
8/5/2025
Prelecture 13 Checkpoint 13 Lecture 13: Application to semiconductors
Book: Chapters 12C
Lecture 13 (pdf)
Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Phase Transitions
     
Wednesday
8/6/2025
    Final Review

Final Review (pdf)
    Homework 12 due
Homework 13 due
 
Thursday
8/7/2025
Reading Day  

 
    Final Exam      

FINAL EXAM

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