This schedule will be adapted as we go along. Naturally, the listed book sections in Schroeder or other reading should be read before each class.

	9.30 Class	Topics	Reading
wk0	W Sep 24	Admin and introduction
	F Sep 26	Thermal equilibrium, temperature	1.1
wk1	M Sep 29	Ideal gas	1.2
	W Oct 1	Kinetic theory, equipartition of energy	1.3
HW1 due	F Oct 3	First Law, work, p-V diagrams.  Adiabatic, isothermal compression	1.4
wk2	M Oct 6	Heat capacities	1.5
	W Oct 8	Latent heat, enthalpy	1.6
HW2 due	F Oct 10	Thermal conductivity	1.7
wk3	M Oct 13	Probability distributions.  Mean free path.  Diffusion
	W Oct 15	Two-state paramagnet.  Multiplicity	2.1
HW3 due	F Oct 17	Einstein Model	2.2
wk4	M Oct 20	Interacting systems and the Second Law	2.3,2.4
	W Oct 22	Ideal gas	2.5
HW4 due	F Oct 24	Entropy and reversibility	2.6
wk5	M Oct 27	MIDTERM 1
	W Oct 29	Temperature as dU/dS	3.1
	F Nov 31	Entropy and heat	3.2
wk6  HW5	M Nov 3	Mechanical equilibrium and pressure	3.4
	W Nov 5	The thermodynamic identity	3.4
HW6 due	F Nov 7	Chemical potential	3.5
wk7	M Nov 10	Abstract heat engines and refrigerators	4.2
	W Nov 12	Real heat engines	4.3
HW7 due	F Nov 14	Refrigerators	4.4
wk8	M Nov 17	MIDTERM 2
	W Nov 19	Free energy as available work	5.1
	F Nov 21	Thermodynamic potentials.  Maxwell relations
wk9	M Nov 24	Free energy as force towards equilibrium	5.2
HW8 due	W Nov 26	Phase transformations and phase diagrams	5.3
	F Nov 28	Thanksgiving
wk10	M Dec 1	Boltzmann factor	6.1
	W Dec 3	Partition function, average values, equipartition theorem	6.2
HW9 due	F Dec 5	Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution	6.3, 6.4
wk11	W Dec 10	FINAL EXAM   8.25-10.25am  in A110