PHYS 213 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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The book chapter recommendations are supplementary to the prelecture notes. Generally the course follows the notes very closely, and the book only approximately.

Week Date Prelectures Checkpoints Lectures Prelabs/Labs Discussions Homework Exams
1
Monday
10/9/2023
Prelecture 1 Checkpoint 1 Lecture 1: Internal energy
Book: Introduction Chapter 1
pdf pptx
       
Tuesday
10/10/2023
      No lab activities
this week
Discussion 1
Solution
   
Wednesday
10/11/2023
Prelecture 2 Checkpoint 2 Lecture 2: Temperature, heat capacity
Book: Chapters 3 A-D
pdf pptx
   
Thursday
10/12/2023
         
Friday
10/13/2023
    No lectures on Fridays!    
2
Monday
10/16/2023
Prelecture 3 Checkpoint 3 Lecture 3: Entropy
Book: Chapter 2, 5
pdf pptx
       
Tuesday
10/17/2023
      No lab activities
this week
Discussion 2
Solution
Homework 1 due
Homework 2 due
 
Wednesday
10/18/2023
Prelecture 4 Checkpoint 4 Lecture 4: Entropy II
Book: Chapter 6
pdf pptx
   
Thursday
10/19/2023
         
Friday
10/20/2023
         
3
Monday
10/23/2023
Prelecture 5 Checkpoint 5 Lecture 5: Kinetic theory of the ideal gas
Book: Chapter 3 
pdf pptx
       
Tuesday
10/24/2023
     

Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Thermal Properties of Materials

Discussion 3
Solution
Homework 3 due
Homework 4 due
 
Wednesday
10/25/2023
Prelecture 6 Checkpoint 6 Lecture 6: Quasistatic processes
Book: Chapter 4 A-C
pdf pptx
   
Thursday
10/26/2023
         
Friday
10/27/2023
        Exam 1 (27 October through 30 October)
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4
Monday
10/30/2023
Prelecture 7 Checkpoint 7 Lecture 7: Thermodynamic cycles
Book: Chapter 4 E-F
pdf pptx
      Exam 1 (27 October through 30 October)
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Tuesday
10/31/2023
      No lab activities
this week
Discussion 4
Solution
Homework 5 due
Homework 6 due
 
Wednesday
11/1/2023
Prelecture 8 Checkpoint 8 Lecture 8: Gibbs free energy: equilibrium in contact with a bath
Book: Chapter 10E
pdf pptx
   
Thursday
11/2/2023
         
Friday
11/3/2023
         
5
Monday
11/6/2023
Prelecture 9 Checkpoint 9 Lecture 9: Chemical potential and phases
pdf pptx
       
Tuesday
11/7/2023
      Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Ideal gas law
Discussion 5
Solution
Homework 7 due
Homework 8 due
 
Wednesday
11/8/2023
Prelecture 10 Checkpoint 10 Lecture 10: Phase diagrams and phase boundaries
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Thursday
11/9/2023
         
Friday
11/10/2023
        Exam 2 (10 November through 13 November)
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6
Monday
11/13/2023
Prelecture 11 Checkpoint 11 Lecture 11: Microscopic probabilities: Boltzmann
Book: Chapters 8
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      Exam 2 (10 November through 13 November)
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Tuesday
11/14/2023
      No lab activities
this week
Discussion 6
Solution
Homework 9 due
Homework 10 due
 
Wednesday
11/15/2023
   

Lecture 11 part 2

pdf pptx

   
Thursday
11/16/2023
         
Friday
11/17/2023
         
7
Monday
11/20/2023
    Fall break, no class        
Tuesday
11/21/2023
    Fall break, no class        
Wednesday
11/22/2023
    Fall break, no class    
Thursday
11/23/2023
    Fall break, no class    
Friday
11/24/2023
    Fall break, no class    
8
Monday
11/27/2023
Prelecture 12 Checkpoint 12 Lecture 12: Boltzmann examples
Book: Chapters 9
pdf pptx
       
Tuesday
11/28/2023
      Prelab 3
Lab 3: Phase Transitions
 
Discussion 7
Solution
Homework 11 due  
Wednesday
11/29/2023
Prelecture 13 Checkpoint 13 Lecture 13: Application to semiconductors
Book: Chapters 12C
pdf pptx
   
Thursday
11/30/2023
         
Friday
12/1/2023
         
9
Monday
12/4/2023
    Lecture 14: Review and cleanup
pdf pptx
       
Tuesday
12/5/2023
          Homework 12 due Homework 13 due  
Wednesday
12/6/2023
    Lecture 15: Final review
pdf pptx Extra notes
 
       
Thursday
12/7/2023
Reading Day
Friday
12/8/2023