Introduction to Stat Mech
and Thermodynamics;
Basics of Probability;
Irreversibility.

Class notes

1/21
 
1/26

Temperature;
Classical stat. mech for ideal gas.
Basic concepts of stat mech;
Quantum states and multiplicities..

Class notes
 
K&K Chapter 1

Assignment 1 due

1/28
 
2/2

Microcanonical and
Canonical ensembles..
Fundamental thermodynamic relation;
Pressure, heat capacity, free energy..

K&K Chapter 2
 
K&K Chapter 3

Assignment 2 due

2/4
2/9

First look at ideal gas.
Thermal radiation; 
Greenhouse effect;

K&K Chapter 3 ctd.
 
K&K Chapter 4

Assignment 3 due

2/11
2/16

Phonons - Debye Theory.
Chemical potential and Gibbs Sum.

K&K Chapter 5
Handout 

Assignment 4 due

2/18
2/23

Review
 Chemical potential, ctd.

Assignment 5, Part 1, due
Exam Due on 2/23

2/25
3/2

Fermi and Bose statistics.
Ideal gases and classical limit;
Degenerate Fermi gas.

K&K Chapter 7
K&K Chapter 7 ctd.

 Assignment 5, Part 2, due

3/4
3/9

Bose gas and Bose condensation..
Lab tour - Atom trapping

K&K Chapter 7 ctd.
 

Assignment 6 due

3/11

Heat and work;
Reversible processes and 
Carnot limits, Carnot cycle.

K&K Chapter 8.

Assignment 7 due

3/13--3/21

SPRING BREAK

3/23

NO CLASS

APS Meeting

3/25
 3/30

Otto cycle efficiency;. 
Van der Waals gas;
Latent heat.

K&K Chapters 9, 10
.

Assignment 8, Part 1, due

4/1
4/6

Rankine cycle and Enthalpy.
Phase boundary (Clausius-Clapeyron);
Joule-Thomson effect.

Handout on steam tables

Assignment 8, Part 2, due
This lecture was skipped
due to illness.

4/8
4/13

Review.
Begin building steam engine kits.

K&K Chapter 10
Handout

Assignment 9 due
Exam Due on 4/13 

4/15
4/20

Work on steam engine kits.
Semiconductor basics.

Directions.
K&K Chapter 13

Assignment 10, Part 1, due

4/22
4/27

p-n Junctions.
Wrap-up -- Brownian motion.

K&K Chapter 13, ctd.

Assignment 10, Part 1, due

5/5

Final Exam