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Schedule

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Week Date Prelectures Lecture Lab Discussion Homework/Online Quizzes Exam
1
Monday
10/16/2017
  Lecture 1:
Mechanics & Thermodynamics
Text: Introduction and 1
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
10/17/2017
      Discussion 1    
Wednesday
10/18/2017

Prelecture 1
Pressure and equipartition
 

Lecture 2:
Equipartition
Text: 3
pdf ppt
     
Thursday
10/19/2017
         
Friday
10/20/2017

Prelecture 2
Work and heat capacity
 

Lecture 3:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
     
2
Monday
10/23/2017

Prelecture 3
Heat capacity and thermal conduction
 

Lecture 4:
Heat Capacity and Conductivity
Text: 4 A-C
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
10/24/2017
    Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Ideal Gas Law
Discussion 2
Quiz 1
Homework 1 due
Online Quiz 1 due
 
Wednesday
10/25/2017
 

Lecture 5:
Diffusion, Microstates & Macrostates
Text: 5
pdf ppt

 

   
Thursday
10/26/2017
       
Friday
10/27/2017
  Lecture 6:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
   
3
Monday
10/30/2017

Prelecture 4
Entropy and volume exchange
 

Lecture 7:
Volume Exchange:
Equilibrium & Entropy
Text: 6
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
10/31/2017
    Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Thermal Properties
of Materials
Discussion 3
Quiz 2
Homework 2 due
Online Quiz 2 due
 
Wednesday
11/1/2017

Prelecture 5
Energy exchange, entropy and temperature
 

Lecture 8:
Energy Exchange:
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Text: 7
pdf ppt

   
Thursday
11/2/2017
       
Friday
11/3/2017
 

Lecture 9:
Review & Examples
Text: 10A
pdf ppt

   
4
Monday
11/6/2017

Prelecture 6
Boltzmann distribution

Lecture 10:
The Boltzmann Distribution
Text: 8A-B
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
11/7/2017
      Discussion 4
Quiz 3
Homework 3 due
Online Quiz 3 due
 
Wednesday
11/8/2017
  Lecture 11:
Paramagnetism, 2-level Systems
Text: 8C-D
pdf ppt
     
Thursday
11/9/2017
         
Friday
11/10/2017
 

Lecture 12:
Law of Atmospheres, Harmonic Oscillators
Text: 8E
pdf ppt

     
5
Monday
11/13/2017

Prelecture 7
Thermal radiation

Lecture 13:
Thermal Radiation, Global Warming
Text: 9D-F
pdf ppt

      Midterm Exam
Tuesday
11/14/2017
    Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Probability &
Boltzmann
Discussion 5
Quiz 4
   
Wednesday
11/15/2017
Prelecture 8
Heat engines
Lecture 14:
Heat Engines
Text: 10A-B
pdf ppt
 
Thursday
11/16/2017
    Homework 4 due
Online Quiz 4 due
Friday
11/17/2017
Prelecture 9
Free energy

Lecture 15:
Heat Pumps, Refrigerators &
Free Energy
Text: 10C-E
pdf ppt

 
6
Monday
11/20/2017
Fall break
7
Monday
11/27/2017

Prelecture 10
Chemical potential part 1
 

Lecture 16:
Particle Exchange, Lattice Defects
Text: 11
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
11/28/2017
    No lab Discussion 6
Quiz 5
   
Wednesday
11/29/2017


 

Lecture 17:
Applications of Free Energy
Semiconductors
Text: 12
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
11/30/2017
    Homework 5 due
Online Quiz 5 due
 
Friday
12/1/2017

Prelecture 11
Chemical potential part 2
 

Lecture 18:
Review & Examples
pdf ppt
   
8
Monday
12/4/2017
  Lecture 19:
Surfaces and Phase Transitions
Text: 13
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
12/5/2017
    Prelab 4
Lab 4:
Phase Transitions
Discussion 7
Quiz 6
   
Wednesday
12/6/2017
  Lecture 20:
Phase Transitions (2)
Latent Heat
Text: 13
pdf ppt
   
Thursday
12/7/2017
       
Friday
12/8/2017
  Lecture 21:
Chemical Equilibrium
Law of Mass Action
pdf ppt
   
9
Monday
12/11/2017
  Lecture 22:
Phase Transistions (3),
Supercooling/heating
pdf ppt
       
Tuesday
12/12/2017
        Homework 6 due
Online Quiz 6 due
 
Wednesday
12/13/2017
           
Thursday
12/14/2017
Reading Day
Friday
12/15/2017
Final Exam: 7pm          
 

Monday

12/18/2017

Final Exam: 7pm