PHYS 427 Fall 2019
PHYS 427 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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(Typeset lecture notes provided courtesy Y. Chemla (c) 2017. Not for distribution.)
| Week | Date | Lecture Notes |
Homework
|
Reading (Schroeder) |
Lectures | Discussions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Aug 26
|
Notes 1 | 2.1-2.4 | Probability and multiplicity | ||
| 1 |
Aug 28
|
Notes 2 |
due 9/5 |
2.1-2.4 | Multiplicity of physical systems | |
| 2 |
Sep 2
|
Labor day holiday | ||||
| 2 |
Sep 4
|
Notes 3 |
due 9/12 |
2.6 and 3.1 | Thermal equilibrium and temperature | |
| 3 |
Sep 9
|
Notes 4 | 2.6 and 3.4 | Entropy of an ideal gas | ||
| 3 | Sep 11 | Notes 5 |
due 9/19 |
6.1 and 6.2 | Canonical ensemble | |
| 4 |
Sep 16
|
Notes 6 | 6.3 | Equipartition theorem | ||
| 4 |
Sep 18
|
Notes 7 |
due 9/26 |
6.5 and 6.7 | Helmholtz free energy | |
| 5 |
Sep 23
|
4.1 | Heat and Work | |||
| 5 |
Sep 25
|
Notes 9 |
due 10/10 |
5.1 | Thermodynamic potentials | |
| 6 |
Sep 30
|
Notes 10 | 3.5 | Chemical potential | ||
| 6 |
Oct 2
|
Midterm 1 |
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| 7 |
Oct 7
|
Notes 11 | 5.2 | Gibbs free energy | ||
| 7 |
Oct 9
|
Notes 12 |
due 10/24 |
7.1 | Grand Canonical Ensemble | |
| 8 |
Oct 14
|
Notes 13 | 7.4 | Photon gas | ||
| 8 | Oct 16 | Notes 14 | 7.5 | Debye model | ||
| 9 |
Oct 21
|
Notes 15 | 7.2 | Quantum statistics | ||
| 9 | Oct 23 | Notes 16 |
due 10/31 |
7.3 | Degenerate Fermi gas I | |
| 10 | Oct 28 | Notes 17 | 7.3 | Degenerate Fermi gas II | ||
| 10 |
Oct 30
|
Notes 18 |
due 11/14 |
7.6 | Bose-Einstein condensation | |
| 11 | Nov 4 | Notes 19 | 5.3 | Phase transitions | ||
| 11 | Nov 6 |
Midterm 2 |
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| 12 | Nov 11 | Notes 20 | 5.3 | Van der Waals model | ||
| 12 |
Nov 13
|
Notes 21 |
due 11/21 |
8.2 | Ising model 1 | |
| 13 | Nov 18 | Ising model 2 | ||||
| 13 |
Nov 20
|
Notes 22 | Landau theory | |||
| 14 |
Nov 25
|
Fall break | ||||
| 14 |
Nov 27
|
Fall break | ||||
| 15 |
Dec 2
|
Notes 23 |
due 12/11 |
Kinetic theory | ||
| 15 | Dec 4 | Notes 24 | Thermal radiation | |||
| 16 | Dec 9 | Notes 25 1,2 | Thermal conduction | |||
| 16 |
Dec 11
|
Review | ||||
|
Dec 19 1:30-4:30 |
Loomis 139 & 144 |