PHYS 427 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Week	Date	Lectures	Reading (K&K)
1	Aug 27	Equilibrium, heat capacity	Chs. 1,2
1	Aug 29	Einstein solid, entropy Second Law of Thermodynamics	Chs. 1,2
2	Sep 3	No Class
2	Sep 5	Two state systems - paramagnet	Chs. 1,2
3	Sep 10	Probability distributions	Notes
3	Sep 12	Canonical ensemble Partition function	Ch. 3
4	Sep 17	Thermodynamic processes Reversibiity	Ch. 3
4	Sep 19	Helmholtz free energy	Ch. 3
5	Sep 24	Ideal gas, entropy of mixing, Quantum density	Ch. 3
5	Sep 26	Diatomic molecules	Ch. 3
6	Oct 1	Ortho and para hydrogen	Notes
6	Oct 3	Cavity radiation Planck distribution	Ch. 4
7	Oct 8	Blackbody radiation	Ch. 4
7	Oct 10	Nyqyist noise in resistors	Ch. 4
8	Oct 15	Debye theory of specific heat	Ch. 4
8	Oct 17	Classical statistical mechanics Equipartition theorem	Notes
9	Oct 22	Midterm Exam
9	Oct 24	Chemical potential, Saha equation	Ch. 5
10	Oct 29	Gibb's Sum	Ch. 5
10	Oct 31	Identical particles, quantum statistics	Notes
11	Nov 5	Fermi and Bose distributions	Ch. 6
11	Nov 7	Degenerate Fermi gases	Ch. 7
12	Nov 12	Bose-Einstein condensation Atomic cooling	Chs. 7
12	Nov 14	Semiconductor statistics	Notes, Ch. 13
13	Nov 19, 21	Fall break
14	Nov 26	Carnot cycle, engines, refrigerators	Ch. 8
14	Nov 28	Enthalpy, Gibbs free energy	Ch. 8
15	Dec 3	Phase transformations	Ch. 10
15	Dec 5	Liquid -gas transition	Ch. 10
16	Dec 10	Thermodynamic transformations	Notes
16	Dec 12	Review
	Dec 19	Final Exam Wed, Dec 19, 7-10 PM 144 Loomis