Syllabus Physics 351 - Spring 2013 LECTURE DATES LECTURE TOPICS CHAPTERS IN TEXT NOTES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Wed 1/23 Temperature, Ideal Gas Ch 1 2 Fri 1/25 1st Law, Work, Heat Capacity 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 3 Wed 1/30 Combinatorics, Einstien Solids 2.1 - 2.4 HW 1 Due 4 Fri 2/1 2nd Law. Entropy 2.5 - 2.6 5 Wed 2/6 Temperature, Entropy and Heat 3.1, 3.2 HW 2 Due 6 Fri 2/8 Paramagnetism, Ideal Gas 3.3, 3.4 7 Wed 2/13 Chemical Potential 3.5 HW 3 Due 8 Fri 2/15 Two State System 9 Wed 2/20 Overview of Chapters 1 - 3 Ch 1 - 3 HW 4 Due Fri 2/22 Problem solving session 10 Wed 2/27 Ideal Heat Engines, Carnot cycle 4.1, 4.2 11 Fri 3/1 Real Heat Engines and Refrigerators 4.3, 4.4 12 Wed 3/6 Refrigerators, absolute zero 4.4 HW 5 Due Fri 3/8 Midterm Review Wed 3/13 MIDTERM EXAM (Chapters 1 - 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13 Fri 3/15 Free Energy and Equilibrium 5.2 SPRING BREAK 14 Wed 3/27 Free Energy and Work 5.1 15 Fri 3/29 Phase Transitions of pure substances 5.3 HW 6 Due (note Friday due date) 16 Wed 4/3 Wan der Walls Model of gas 5.3 HW 7 Due (short problem set) 17 Fri 4/5 Phase Transitions of mixtures 5.4 18 Wed 4/10 Boltzmann Statistics, Cannonical Ensembles 6 HW 8 Due 19 Fri 4/12 Continuous Spectrum, Density of States and Equipartition 6, 7 20 Wed 4/17 Grand Canonical Ensemble, Quantum Ideal Gas 7 HW 9 Due 21 Fri 4/19 Ideal Fermi and Bose gas 7 22 Wed 4/24 Degenerate Fermi Gas, Bose-Einstein Condensation 7 HW 10 Due 23 Fri 4/26 Blackbody Radiation 7 24 Wed 5/1 Ch 5 - 7 Review HW 11 Due 4/27 Fri 5/3 Final Review -----------------------------------------------------------------------------