==== Course Overview ====

Topics Included: Entropy and quantum mechanics; canonical Gibbs probability;
ideal gas; thermal radiation; Einstein and Debye lattices; grand canonical
Gibbs probability; ideal Fermi and Bose gases; chemical reactions and phase
transformations. Reading assignments are from Allen Wasserman's book.

==== Sample Course Syllabus ====

See  [[http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~jansenh/COURSES/ph441/Info.html| syllabus for Winter 2010]]

==== Sample Course Schedule ====

See  [[http://physics.oregonstate.edu/~jansenh/COURSES/ph441/Schedule.php| course schedule for Winter 2010]]

==== Activities Included ====

Not yet


==== Diagnostic questions ====

This link leads to a set of diagnostic questions used to gauge the class. They
were given the day before the topic was dicsussed in class. Used mainly in
weeks one and two, review weeks.

[[.:smfiles:diagnostics|Diagnostic questions]]


==== Overview of daily topics, arranged by week ====

Note that there are many more possible in class problems than can be done. It
just gives a selection.

[[.:smfiles:week1| Week 1: Review Thermodynamics, read chapter 1, 4, 5]]

[[.:smfiles:week2| Week 2: Review Statistical Mechanics, read chapter 2, 3, 6, 7]]

[[.:smfiles:week3| Week 3: Ideal gas, read chapter 8]]

[[.:smfiles:week4| Week 4: Two level systems, read chapter 9]]

[[.:smfiles:week5| Week 5: Heat capacity of solids, read chapter 10]]

[[.:smfiles:midterm | Midterm]]

[[.:smfiles:week6| Week 6: Magnetism, read chapter 12]]

[[.:smfiles:week7| Week 7: Open systems, read chapter 13]]

[[.:smfiles:week8| Week 8: Chemical potential, read chapter 14]]

[[.:smfiles:week9| Week 9: Black Body Radiation, read chapter 15]]

[[.:smfiles:week10| Week 10: Fermi systems, read chaper 16]]

==== Activities Included ====

  * [[activities:courses:smindex|All activities]] for Statistical Mechanics
  * [[swbq:courses:smindex|All small whiteboard questions]] for Statistical Mechanics\\\\ //(What are [[strategy:smallwhiteboard:|SWBQs]]?)//