| Week | |
| Tuesday, March 27, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 3 "Statistical Counting in Mechanics" |
| Thursday, March 29, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 3 "Statistical Counting in Mechanics", HW 3 |
| Week | |
| Tuesday, April 3, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 4 "The Gibbs-Boltzmann Distribution" |
| Thursday, April 5, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 4 "The Gibbs-Boltzmann Distribution" |
| Thursday, April 5, 16:00-17:15 | Ch. 4 "The Gibbs-Boltzmann Distribution", HW 4 |
| Week | |
| Tuesday, April 10, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 5 "Statistical Justification of the Second Law" |
| Thursday, April 12, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 5 "Statistical Justification of the Second Law" Ch. 8.3, Ch. 8.4 Gibbs Paradox |
| Thursday, April 12, 16:00-17:15 | Ch. 5 "Statistical Justification of the Second Law", Ch. 8.3, Ch. 8.4 Gibbs Paradox, HW 5 |
| Week | |
| Tuesday, April 17, 9:30-10:45 | Landau-Lifshitz vol.5 Ch.4 Sec.40 "The Entropy of an Ideal Non-equilibrium Gas" |
| Thursday, April 19, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 7 "Thermodynamic Exploration of the Second Law; Mass Transfer Problems" |
| Thursday, April 19, 16:00-17:15 | Ch. 7 "Thermodynamic Exploration of the Second Law; Mass Transfer Problems", HW 6 |
| Week | |
| Tuesday, April 24, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 8 "The Grand Ensemble; Classical Statistics of Independent Particles" |
| Thursday, April 26, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 9 "Quantum Statistics of Independent Particles", HW 7 |
| Thursday, April 26, 16:00-17:15 | Landau-Lifshitz vol.5 Ch.5 Sec.55 "The Entropy of Non-equilibrium Fermi and Bose Gases" |
| Week | |
| Tuesday, May 1, 9:30-10:45 | Discussion of HW 6 Ch. 9-3 "Theory of the Perfect Fermi Gas" |
| Thursday, May 3, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 14-4 "Electronic Heat Capacity in Metals" |
| Thursday, May 3, 16:00-17:15 | Ch. 9-5 "Bose-Einstein Condensation" |
| Week | |
| Tuesday, May 8, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 10 "Thermal Properties of Electromagnetic Radiation" Ch. 13-1, 13-4 "Debye Theory of the Heat Capacity of Solids" |
| Thursday, May 10, 9:30-10:45 | Ch. 15 "Statistics of Magnetism" |
| Final Exam | |
| Monday, May 14, 8-10 am, room 1201 | About 3 problems from past qualifier exams. Open book exam - you can use textbook and any other materials. |
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