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Schedule

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Week Date
Homework
 Lectures Reading
(K&K)		      Discussion     
1
Mon. Aug. 22
   1. Probabilities & entropy Ch. 1 & 2  
 
Wed. Aug. 24

PS #1

Solutions #1

due 9/1/16

2. Thermal equilibrium & temperature

    
2
Mon. Aug. 29
   3. Heat bath & paramagnet Ch. 2 & Appendix E

Discussion 1

Solutions 1
 
Wed. Aug. 31

PS #2

Solutions #2

due 9/8/16

 4. Entropy of an Ideal Gas    
3
Mon. Sept. 5
   Labor Day Ch. 3

Discussion 2

Solutions 2
 
Wed. Sept. 7

PS #3

Solutions #3

due 9/15/16

 5. Canonical Ensemble    
4
Mon. Sept. 12
   6. Equipartition theorem Ch. 3

Discussion 3

Solutions 3
 
Wed. Sept. 14

PS #4

Solutions #4

due 9/22/16

7. Free energy

 

  
5
Mon. Sept. 19
  

8. Planck distribution

Ch. 4 & Greenhouse supplement

Discussion 4

Solutions 4
 
Wed. Sept. 21
   9. Blackbody radiation    
6
Mon. Sept. 26
   10. Debye theory of solids Ch. 4  
 
Wed. Sept. 28

PS #5

Solutions #5

due 10/6/16

 Midterm exam 1    
7
Mon. Oct. 3
   11. Chemical potential Ch. 5

Discussion 6

Solutions 6
 
Wed. Oct. 5

PS #6

Solutions #6

due 10/13/16

 12. Grand canonical ensemble    
8
Mon. Oct. 10
  

13. Quantum statistics

 Ch. 6 & 7, Fermi gas

Discussion 7

Solutions 7
 
Wed. Oct. 12

PS #7

Solutions #7

due 10/20/16

 14. Fermi gas I    
9
Mon. Oct. 17
  

15. Fermi gas II

 Ch. 6 & 7, Bose gas

Discussion 8

Solutions 8
  Wed. Oct. 19

PS #8

Solutions #8

due 10/31/16

 16. Bose-Einstein condensation    
10 Mon. Oct. 24   17. Heat engines & Carnot cycle Ch. 8

Discussion 9

Solutions 9
 
Wed. Oct. 26

PS #9

Solutions #9

due 11/3/16

 18. Thermodynamic transformations    
11
Mon. Oct. 31
   19. Gibbs free energy

Ch. 9 & 10

Discussion 10

Solutuions 10
 
Wed. Nov. 2
   20. Phase transformations    
12
Mon. Nov. 7
  

CLASS CANCELED

 Ch. 10  
 
Wed. Nov. 9

PS #10

Solutions #10

due 11/17/16

 Midterm exam 2    
13
Mon. Nov. 14
   22. Van der Waals model Ch. 10

Discussion 12

Solutions 12
 
Wed. Nov. 16

PS #11

Solutions #11

due 12/1/16

23. Ferromagnetism

    
14
Mon. Nov. 21
   Thanksgiving break    
 
Wed. Nov. 23
        
15
Mon. Nov. 28 

 

 24. Landau theory Ch. 12 & 14

Discussion 13

Solutions 13
 
Wed. Nov. 30

PS #12

Solutions #12

due 12/8/16

 25. Kinetic theory    
16
Mon. Dec. 5
   26. Propagation Ch. 15

Discussion 14

Solutions 14
  Wed. Dec. 7   Review