PHYS 427 Spring 2015
PHYS 427 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
| Week | Date |
Homework
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Solutions
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Lectures |
Reading (K&K) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Wed
Jan 21 |
hw1 due Feb 2 | Probability, Random Walk | ||
| 2 |
Monday
Jan 26 |
Solutions | chapters 1,2 | ||
| 2 |
Wed
Jan 28 |
Multiplicity, Second Law | |||
| 3 |
Monday
Feb 2 |
hw2 due Feb 11 | Entropy of an Ideal Gas | ||
| 3 |
Wed
Feb 4 |
Solutions | Thermodynamics | chapter 3 | |
| 4 |
Monday
Feb 9 |
Canonical Ensemble | |||
| 4 |
Wed
Feb 11 |
hw3 due Feb 23 | Free Energy | ||
| 5 |
Mon
Feb 16 |
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| 5 |
Wed
Feb 18 |
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| 6 |
Mon
Feb 23 |
hw4 due Mar 4 | Planck distribution | chapter 4 | |
| 6 |
Wed
Feb 25 |
Quiz | |||
| 7 |
Mon
Mar 2 |
Solutions | Blackbody radiation | ||
| 7 |
Wed
Mar 4 |
Debye model for solids | |||
| 8 |
Mon
Mar 9 |
hw5 due March 30 | Chemical Potential | Chapter 5 | |
| 8 |
Wed
Mar 11
|
Solutions |
Quiz |
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| 9 |
Mon
Mar 16
|
Gibbs Sum | Chapter 5 | ||
| 9 |
Wed
Mar 18
|
Exam |
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| 10 |
Mar 21- Mar 29 |
Spring Break | |||
| 11 |
Mon
Mar 30
|
hw6 due Apr 8 | Quantum Statistics | Chapter 6 | |
| 11 |
Wed
Apr 1
|
Solutions | Fermi-Dirac systems |
Chapter 7 |
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| 12 |
Mon
Apr 6
|
Fermi-Dirac systems | Chapter 7 | ||
| 12 |
Wed
Apr 8
|
Quiz |
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| 13 |
Mon
Apr 13
|
Carnot Cycles | Chapter 8 | ||
| 13 |
Wed
Apr 15
|
hw7 due Apr 20 | Thermodynamic transformations | ||
| 14 |
Mon
Apr 20
|
Solutions | Chapter 9 | ||
| 14 |
Wed
Apr 22
|
hw8 due Apr 29 |
Phase transformations Quiz |
Chapter 10 | |
| 15 |
Mon
Apr 27
|
Solutions | van der Waals model | ||
| 15 |
Wed
Apr 29
|
Chemical thermodynamics | |||
| 16 |
Mon
May 4
|
Solutions | Magnetism | ||
| 16 |
Wed
May 6
|
Random processes | |||
| 17 |
Final Exam 144 Loomis 1:30 - 4:30 PM May 15, 2015 |