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.
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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.
Note that there are many more possible in class problems than can be done. It just gives a selection.
Week 1: Review Thermodynamics, read chapter 1, 4, 5
Week 2: Review Statistical Mechanics, read chapter 2, 3, 6, 7
Week 3: Ideal gas, read chapter 8
Week 4: Two level systems, read chapter 9
Week 5: Heat capacity of solids, read chapter 10
Week 6: Magnetism, read chapter 12
Week 7: Open systems, read chapter 13
Week 8: Chemical potential, read chapter 14