PHYS 213 Fall 2024
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 |
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| 1 |
Monday
10/14/2024 |
Prelecture 1 | Checkpoint 1 | Lecture 1: Internal energy Book: Introduction Chapter 1 pdf pptx |
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Tuesday
10/15/2024 |
No lab activities this week |
Discussion 1 Solution |
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Wednesday
10/16/2024 |
Prelecture 2 | Checkpoint 2 | Lecture 2: Temperature, heat capacity Book: Chapters 3 A-D pdf pptx |
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Thursday
10/17/2024 |
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Friday
10/18/2024 |
No lectures on Fridays! |
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| 2 |
Monday
10/21/2024 |
Prelecture 3 | Checkpoint 3 | Lecture 3: Entropy Book: Chapter 2, 5 pdf pptx |
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Tuesday
10/22/2024 |
No lab activities this week |
Discussion 2 Solution |
Homework 1 due Homework 2 due |
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Wednesday
10/23/2024 |
Prelecture 4 | Checkpoint 4 | Lecture 4: Entropy II Book: Chapter 6 pdf pptx |
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Thursday
10/24/2024 |
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Friday
10/25/2024 |
Worked problems | |||||||
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Monday
10/28/2024 |
Prelecture 5 | Checkpoint 5 | Lecture 5: Kinetic theory of the ideal gas Book: Chapter 3 pdf pptx |
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Tuesday
10/29/2024 |
Discussion 3 Solution |
Homework 3 due Homework 4 due |
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Wednesday
10/30/2024 |
Prelecture 6 | Checkpoint 6 | Lecture 6: Quasistatic processes Book: Chapter 4 A-C pdf pptx |
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Thursday
10/31/2024 |
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Friday
11/1/2024 |
Worked problems | Exam 1 Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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| 4 |
Monday
11/4/2024 |
Prelecture 7 | Checkpoint 7 | Lecture 7: Thermodynamic cycles Book: Chapter 4 E-F pdf pptx |
Exam 1 Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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Tuesday
11/5/2024 |
No lab activities this week |
Discussion 4 Solution |
Homework 5 due Homework 6 due |
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Wednesday
11/6/2024 |
Prelecture 8 | Checkpoint 8 | Lecture 8: Gibbs free energy: equilibrium in contact with a bath Book: Chapter 10E (in-person lecture cancelled -- see recorded lecture) pdf pptx |
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Thursday
11/7/2024 |
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Friday
11/8/2024 |
Worked problems | |||||||
| 5 |
Monday
11/11/2024 |
Prelecture 9 | Checkpoint 9 | Lecture 9: Chemical potential and phases pdf pptx |
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Tuesday
11/12/2024 |
Prelab 2 Lab 2: Ideal gas law |
Discussion 5 Solution |
Homework 7 due Homework 8 due |
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Wednesday
11/13/2024 |
Prelecture 10 | Checkpoint 10 | Lecture 10: Phase diagrams and phase boundaries pdf pptx |
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Thursday
11/14/2024 |
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Friday
11/15/2024 |
Worked problems | Exam 2 Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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| 6 |
Monday
11/18/2024 |
Prelecture 11 | Checkpoint 11 | Lecture 11: Microscopic probabilities: Boltzmann Book: Chapters 8 pdf pptx |
Exam 2 Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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Tuesday
11/19/2024 |
No lab activities this week |
Discussion 6 Solution |
Homework 9 due Homework 10 due |
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Wednesday
11/20/2024 |
Lecture 11 part 2 |
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Thursday
11/21/2024 |
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Friday
11/22/2024 |
Worked problems | |||||||
| 7 |
Monday
11/25/2024 |
Fall break, no class | ||||||
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Tuesday
11/26/2024 |
Fall break, no class | |||||||
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Wednesday
11/27/2024 |
Fall break, no class | |||||||
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Thursday
11/28/2024 |
Fall break, no class | |||||||
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Friday
11/29/2024 |
Fall break, no class | |||||||
| 8 |
Monday
12/2/2024 |
Prelecture 12 | Checkpoint 12 | Lecture 12: Boltzmann examples Book: Chapters 9 pdf pptx |
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Tuesday
12/3/2024 |
Prelab 3 Lab 3: Phase Transitions |
Discussion 7 Solution |
Homework 11 due | |||||
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Wednesday
12/4/2024 |
Prelecture 13 | Checkpoint 13 | Lecture 13: Application to semiconductors Book: Chapters 12C pdf pptx |
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Thursday
12/5/2024 |
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Friday
12/6/2024 |
Worked problems | |||||||
| 9 |
Monday
12/9/2024 |
Lecture 14: Review and cleanup pdf pptx |
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Tuesday
12/10/2024 |
Homework 12 due Homework 13 due |
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Wednesday
12/11/2024 |
Lecture 15: Final review pdf pptx Extra notes |
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Thursday
12/12/2024 |
Reading Day | |||||||
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Friday
12/13/2024 |
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