| Week | Date |
Homework
|
Solutions
|
Lectures |
Reading (Schroeder) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Wed
Jan 22 |
Hw1 due Feb 3 | Equilibrium, Equipartition | Chapter 1 | |
| 2 |
Monday
Jan 27 |
Solutions1 | First Law, Heat and Work | ||
| 2 |
Wed
Jan 29 |
Entropy, Second Law | Chapter 2 | ||
| 3 |
Monday
Feb 3 |
Hw2 due Feb 10 | Sackur-Tetrode | Chapter 2.5 | |
| 3 |
Wed
Feb 5 |
Solutions2 | Entropy of mixing, paramagnets | Chapter 3 | |
| 4 |
Monday
Feb 10 |
Hw3 due on Feb 17 | Canonical Ensemble | Chapter 6.1 | |
| 4 |
Wed
Feb 12 |
Solutions3 | Simple partition functions | Chapter 6.2 | |
| 5 |
Mon
Feb 17 |
Hw4 due on Feb 26
|
Classical Stat Mech |
Chapter 6.3 |
|
| 5 |
Wed
Feb 19 |
Solutions4 |
Harmonic Oscillator Fluctuations |
Chapter 7.4 | |
| 6 |
Mon
Feb 24 |
Free Energy | Ch. 5.2, 6.5 | ||
| 6 |
Wed
Feb 26 |
Hw5 due on March 10 | Planck Distribution | Ch. 7.4 | |
| 7 |
Mon
Mar 3 |
Solutions5 | Blackbody radiation | Ch. 7.4 | |
| 7 |
Wed
Mar 5 |
Debye theory of specific heat | Ch. 7.5 | ||
| 8 |
Mon
Mar 10 |
Hw6 due on March 17 | Chemical Potential | Ch. 3.5 | |
| 8 |
Wed
Mar 12
|
Solutions6 |
Chemical Potential |
||
| 9 |
Mon
Mar 17
|
Review | |||
| 9 |
Wed
Mar 19
|
Exam |
|||
| 10 |
Mar 22- Mar 30 |
Spring Break | |||
| 11 |
Mon
Mar 31
|
Hw7 due on April 9 | Grand Canonical Ensemble | Ch. 7.1 | |
| 11 |
Wed
Apr 2
|
Solutions7 | Quantum Statistics |
Ch. 7.2 |
|
| 12 |
Mon
Apr 7
|
Chapter 7 | |||
| 12 |
Wed
Apr 9
|
Hw8 due on April 23 | Chapter 7 | ||
| 13 |
Mon
Apr 14
|
Solutions | Engines and refrigerators | Chapter 4 | |
| 13 |
Wed
Apr 16
|
Chemical equilibrium | |||
| 14 |
Mon
Apr 21
|
Hw9 due April 30 | Thermodynamic transformations | ||
| 14 |
Wed
Apr 23
|
Solutions | Phase equilibrium | ||
| 15 |
Mon
Apr 28
|
Hw10 due May 7 | Liquids | ||
| 15 |
Wed
Apr 30
|
Solutions | Magnetism | ||
| 16 |
Mon
May 5
|
Fluctuation and Dissipation | |||
| 16 |
Wed
May 7
|
Exam formulas | Review | ||
| 17 |
Final Exam
Friday, May 9
1:30-4:30 PM
190 ESB
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