PHYS 214 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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| Week | Date | Prelectures | Checkpoints | Lectures | Prelabs/Labs | Discussions | Homework | Exams | 
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| 1 | ||||||||
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			 Monday 
			7/10/2023  | 
			Prelecture 1 | Checkpoint 1 | 
			 Lecture 1: Internal energy Book: Introduction Chapter 1  | 
			Discussion 1 Solution  | 
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			 Tuesday 
			7/11/2023  | 
			Prelecture 2 | Checkpoint 2 | 
			 Lecture 2:  Temperature, heat capacity  | 
			No Lab | ||||
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			 Wednesday 
			7/12/2023  | 
			Prelecture 3 | Checkpoint 3 | Lecture 3: Entropy Book: Chapter 2, 5  | 
			Discussion 2 Solution  | 
			Homework 1 due Homework 2 due  | 
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			 Thursday 
			7/13/2023  | 
			Prelecture 4 | Checkpoint 4 | Lecture 4: Entropy II Book: Chapter 6  | 
			Prelab 1 Lab 1: Ideal Gas Law  | 
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			Friday 7/14/2023  | 
			Homework 3 due Homework 4 due  | 
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| 2 | 
			 Monday 
			7/17/2023  | 
			Prelecture 5 | Checkpoint 5 | 
			 Lecture 5: Kinetic thory of ideal gas  | 
			Discussion 3 Solution  | 
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			 Tuesday 
			7/18/2023  | 
			Prelecture 6 | Checkpoint 6 | 
			 Lecture 6:Quasistatic processes  | 
			No Lab | ||||
| 
			 Wednesday 
			7/19/2023  | 
			Prelecture 7 | Checkpoint 7 | 
			 Lecture 7: Thermodynamic cycles  | 
			Discussion 4 Solution  | 
			Homework 5 due Homework 6 due  | 
			
			
			 HOUR EXAM (Units 1-6)  | 
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			 Thursday 
			7/20/2023  | 
			Prelecture 8 | Checkpoint 8 | 
			 Lecture 8: Gibbs  free energy: equilibrium in contact with a bath  | 
			No Lab | ||||
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			 Friday 
			7/21/2023  | 
			Homework 7 due Homework 8 due  | 
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| 3 | 
			 Monday 
			7/24/2023  | 
			Prelecture 9 | Checkpoint 9 | Lecture 9: Chemical potential and phases | 
			Discussion 5 Solution  | 
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			 Tuesday 
			7/25/2023  | 
			Prelecture 10 | Checkpoint 10 | Lecture 10: Phase diagrams and phase boundaries | 
			Prelab 2 Lab 2: Thermal Properties of Materials  | 
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			 Wednesday 
			7/26/2023  | 
			Prelecture 11 | Checkpoint 11 | Lecture 11: Microscopic probabilities: Boltzmann  Book: Chapter 8  | 
			Discussion 6 Solution  | 
			Homework 9 due Homework 10 due  | 
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| 
			 Thursday 
			7/27/2023  | 
			Lecture 11: part 2 | 
			No Lab | ||||||
| 
			 Friday 
			7/28/2023  | 
			Homework 11 due | |||||||
| 4 | 
			 Monday 
			7/31/2023  | 
			Prelecture 12 | Checkpoint 12 | 
			 Lecture 12: Boltzmann examples pdf (blank)  | 
			Discussion 7 Solution  | 
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			 Tuesday 
			8/1/2023  | 
			Prelecture 13 | Checkpoint 13 | 
			 Lecture 13: Application to semiconductors  | 
			Prelab 3 Lab 3: Phase Transitions  | 
			Homework 12 due  | 
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			 Wednesday 
			8/2/2023  | 
			
			 Lecture 14: Review and cleanup  | 
			Homework 13 due | ||||||
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			 Thursday 
			8/3/2023  | 
			Reading Day | |||||||
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			 Friday 
			8/4/2023 or Saturday 
			8/5/2023  | 
			
			 FINAL EXAM exact time TBA  | 
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