Class time will usually be spent in active learning activities, so we’ll leave the lectures as homework. Each lecture covers one day of material and should be viewed *prior* to the assigned day in order to be successful with the in-class material for that day.
Text Whiteboard Lecture 1.1 1. Course Overview, Heat, Temperature, and Thermal Expansion 1.2, 1.3 2. The Ideal Gas Law, Real Gases, Equipartition Theorem 1.4, 1.5 3. Heat and Work, Compression and Expansion Work 1.5, 1.6 4. Compression and Work; Adiabatic and Isothermal Processes; Heat Capacities and Latent Heats 2.1, 2.2,2.3 5. Two-s tate Systems, Einstein Model 2.4,2.5 6. Entropy, Interacting Systems, Large Systems 2.6 7. Multiplicity and Entropy of the Ideal Gas 3.1,3.2 8. Temperature; Entropy and Heat (sound muted for first three minutes)3.3-3.6 9. Paramagnetism, Pressure and Mechanical Equilibrium, Chemical Potential and Diffusive Equilibrium 4.1,4.2 10. Heat Engines and Refrigerators 4.3 11. Real Engines 5.1 12. Free Energy as Available Work 5.2,5.3 13. Phase Transformations 6.1,6.2 14. Boltzmann Factor and the Partition Function 6.3,6.4, (6.7 covered in class) 15. Equipartition Theorem and Maxwell Distribution 7.1, 7.2 16. Gibbs Sum; Fermions and Bosons 7.3, 7.4 17. Degenerate Fermi Gases ; Blackbody Radiation