PHYS 214 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Formula sheet

Week Date Prelectures Checkpoints Lectures Prelabs/Labs Discussions Homework Exams
1
Monday
7/10/2023
Prelecture 1 Checkpoint 1

Lecture 1: Internal energy

Book: Introduction Chapter 1
 pdf 

  Discussion 1
Solution
   
Tuesday
7/11/2023
Prelecture 2 Checkpoint 2

Lecture 2:  Temperature, heat capacity
Book: Chapters 3 A-D
pdf 

No Lab      
Wednesday
7/12/2023
Prelecture 3 Checkpoint 3 Lecture 3: Entropy
Book: Chapter 2, 5
pdf 
  Discussion 2
Solution
Homework 1 due
Homework 2 due
 
Thursday
7/13/2023
Prelecture 4 Checkpoint 4 Lecture 4: Entropy II
Book: Chapter 6
pdf
Prelab 1
Lab 1:
Ideal Gas Law
     
 
Friday
7/14/2023
          Homework 3 due
Homework 4 due
2
Monday
7/17/2023
Prelecture 5 Checkpoint 5

Lecture 5: Kinetic thory of ideal gas
Book: Chapter 3

pdf

  Discussion 3
Solution
   
Tuesday
7/18/2023
Prelecture 6 Checkpoint 6

Lecture 6:Quasistatic processes
Book: Chapters 4 A-C

pdf 

​No Lab      
Wednesday
7/19/2023
Prelecture 7 Checkpoint 7

Lecture 7: Thermodynamic cycles
Book: Chapters 4 E-F

pdf 

  Discussion 4
Solution
Homework 5 due
Homework 6 due

HOUR EXAM

(Units 1-6)

Thursday
7/20/2023
Prelecture 8 Checkpoint 8

Lecture 8: Gibbs  free energy: equilibrium in contact with a bath
Book: Chapters 10E

pdf

​No Lab    
Friday
7/21/2023
  Homework 7 due
Homework 8 due
 
3
Monday
7/24/2023
Prelecture 9 Checkpoint 9 Lecture 9: Chemical potential and phases
pdf 
  Discussion 5
Solution
   
Tuesday
7/25/2023
Prelecture 10 Checkpoint 10 Lecture 10: Phase diagrams and phase boundaries
pdf 
Prelab 2
Lab 2:
Thermal Properties
of Materials
     
Wednesday
7/26/2023
Prelecture 11 Checkpoint 11 Lecture 11: Microscopic probabilities: Boltzmann 
Book: Chapter 8
pdf 
  Discussion 6
Solution
Homework 9 due
Homework 10 due
 
Thursday
7/27/2023
    Lecture 11: part 2
pdf 
​No Lab      
Friday
7/28/2023
  Homework 11 due  
4
Monday
7/31/2023
Prelecture 12 Checkpoint 12

Lecture 12: Boltzmann examples
Book: Chapter 9

pdf (blank)

  Discussion 7
Solution
   
Tuesday
8/1/2023
Prelecture 13 Checkpoint 13

Lecture 13: Application to semiconductors
Book: Chapters 12C

pdf

Prelab 3
Lab 3:
Phase Transitions
 
Homework 12 due
 
Wednesday
8/2/2023
   

Lecture 14: Review and cleanup

pdf

    Homework 13 due  
Thursday
8/3/2023
Reading Day  
Friday
8/4/2023

or
 
Saturday
8/5/2023
           

FINAL EXAM

exact time TBA