Syllabus Physics 351 - Spring 2012 LECTURE DATES LECTURE TOPICS CHAPTERS IN TEXT NOTES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Wed 1/18 Temperature, Ideal Gas Ch 1 2 Fri 1/20 1st Law, Work, Heat Capacity 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 3 Wed 1/25 Combinatorics, Einstien Solids 2.1 - 2.4 HW 1 Due 4 Fri 1/27 2nd Law. Entropy 2.5 - 2.6 5 Wed 2/1 Temperature, Entropy and Heat 3.1, 3.2 HW 2 Due 6 Fri 2/3 Paramagnetism, Ideal Gas 3.3, 3.4 7 Wed 2/8 Chemical Potential 3.5 HW 3 Due 8 Fri 2/10 Two State System 9 Wed 2/15 Overview of Chapters 1 - 3 Ch 1 - 3 HW 4 Due Fri 2/17 Problem solving session 10 Wed 2/22 Ideal Heat Engines, Carnot cycle 4.1, 4.2 11 Fri 2/24 Real Heat Engines and Refrigerators 4.3, 4.4 12 Wed 2/29 Refrigerators, absolute zero 4.4 HW 5 Due Fri 3/2 Midterm Review Wed 3/7 MIDTERM EXAM (Chapters 1 - 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13 Fri 3/9 Free Energy and Equilibrium 5.2 SPRING BREAK 14 Wed 3/21 Free Energy and Work 5.1 15 Fri 3/23 Phase Transitions of pure substances 5.3 HW 6 Due (note Friday due date) 16 Wed 3/28 Wan der Walls Model of gas 5.3 HW 7 Due (short problem set) 17 Fri 3/30 Phase Transitions of mixtures 5.4 18 Wed 4/4 Boltzmann Statistics, Cannonical Ensembles 6 HW 8 Due 19 Fri 4/6 Continuous Spectrum, Density of States and Equipartition 6, 7 20 Wed 4/11 Grand Canonical Ensemble, Quantum Ideal Gas 7 HW 9 Due 21 Fri 4/13 Ideal Fermi and Bose gas 7 22 Wed 4/18 Degenerate Fermi Gas, Bose-Einstein Condensation 7 HW 10 Due 23 Fri 4/20 Blackbody Radiation 7 24 Wed 4/25 Ch 5 - 7 Review HW 11 Due 4/27 Fri 4/27 Final Review -----------------------------------------------------------------------------