Class
|
Date
|
Topic
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Reading
(Schroeder)
|
Week
1 1
|
M
3/30
|
Stat Mech vs. Thermo;
Fundamental Assumption of Statistical Mechanics
|
notes; 2.1
|
2
|
W 4/1
|
Multiplicity, Statistical
definition of Entropy and Temperature
|
2.1,2,3,4; 3.1
|
3
|
F 4/3
|
Laws of Thermodynamics (Stat vs
Thermo); 2-state system example
|
3.2,3,4
|
Week
2 4
|
M
4/6
|
Boltzmann Factor; Partition
Function
|
6.1
|
5
|
W 4/8
|
Averages and Fluctuations
|
6.2
|
6
|
F 4/10
|
Equipartition Theorem and its
applications
|
6.3 + notes
|
Week
3 7
|
M
4/13
|
Maxwell distribution, local
temp,State
functions (U, H, F, G); |
6.4
|
8
|
W 4/15
|
Partition function of composite
system; Free energy and partition function
|
6.5
|
9
|
F 4/17
|
Fluctuations and Free energy;
Ideal Gas as particles in a box
|
6.6,7 + notes
|
Week
4 10
|
M
4/20
|
Ideal gas properties from
partition function
|
6.7 + notes
|
11
|
W 4/22
|
Chemical potential
|
3.5, chapter 5
|
12
|
F 4/24
|
MIDTERM
1 (covers through class 10)
|
|
Week
5 13
|
M
4/27
|
Chemical potential with external
field;Gibbs factor; grand partition
function; |
notes,7.1
|
14
|
W 4/29
|
Perfect Gases; Fermi and Bose
statistics
|
7.2
|
15
|
F 5/1
|
Ideal gas revisted, plus
equilibrium dilute solutions
|
6.7 + notes
|
Week
6 16
|
M
5/4
|
Osmotic
pressure and intro to chemical equilibrium
|
5.7
|
17
|
W 5/6
|
Chemical reactions and
equilibrium constants
|
5.6
|
18
|
F 5/8
|
Degenerate Fermi gas; density of
states; star collapse |
7.3 A
|
Week
7 19
|
M
5/11
|
Metal heat capacity; Fermi
paramagnetism
|
7.3 B
|
20
|
W 5/13
|
Dopant carriers in semiconductors
|
notes
|
21
|
F 5/15
|
semiconductor devices -- pn
junctions, thermopower, laser
|
notes
|
Week
8 22
|
M
5/18
|
MIDTERM
2 (covers through class
19)
|
|
23
|
W 5/20
|
Planck distribution and black
body radiation
|
7.4 A
|
24
|
F 5/22
|
applications of BBR - cosmic
background; greenhouse effect
|
7.4 B
|
Week
9 25
|
M
5/25
|
MEMORIAL DAY
|
|
26
|
W 5/27
|
Debye and Einstein models for
phonons in solids
|
3.3, 7.5
|
27
|
F 5/29
|
Bose Einstein condensation
|
7.6
|
Week
10 28
|
M
6/1
|
superfluidity; magnons
|
notes, 7.5
|
29
|
W 6/3
|
Ising model
|
8.2
|
30
|
F 6/5
|
other aspects of Ferromagnetism
and/or Review
|
|
FINAL
|
M
6/8
|
8:30
AM Comprehensive
Final Exam (emphasis on what was not covered on MTs)
|
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