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Unit: Math Bits
- Hour 1: Math Bits - Differentials- Differentials
- Zapping with d- Surfaces Activity: Covariation in Thermal Systems
 
 
- QUIZ
- Small Group Activity: Exploring the Partial Derivative Machine
- Contour Graphs
- Surfaces Activity: Thermodynamic States
 
- Small Group Activity: Exploring the Partial Derivative Machine
- Partial Derivative Machine dictionary
 
- Hour 4: Math Bits - Energy and Integrals- dU
- Numerical Integration
- Surfaces Activity: Quantifying Change in Thermal Systems
 
- Hours 5-6: Math Bits - Derivatives and Chain Rules- Chain Rules- Small Group Activity: PDM Derivatives
 
- Chain Rule Diagrams
 
- Surfaces Activity: “Squishability” of Water Vapor
 
Unit: First Law of Thermodynamics
- Hour 8: Heat and Temperature- Lab: Ice Calorimetry Lab
- SWBQ: Comparing Thermodynamic Properties
- Lecture: Dulong and Petit Rule
 
- Hour 9: The first law- QUIZ
- Activity: Comparing the System and Surroundings
- Lectures: Jargon- Intensive and Extensive
- T, S, V, p, U
- Work, Heat
- The First Law
 
- Lecture: Snapping a Rubber Band
 
- Thermodynamic Identity
- Name the Experiment I
- Heat Capacity
 
- Hour 11: Heat capacity and latent heat- Lab: Ice Lab II
 
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- Heat Capacity of Water Vapor
- Hour 12: Mechanical cycles Needs Content Needs Content- Elevators
- Small Group Activity: The Elevator Cycle
 
- Hour 13: Heat, work, and processes Needs Prereqs Needs Prereqs- Work
- Heat
- Using $p V$ and $T S$ Plots
 
- Hour 14: A simple cycle Needs Prereqs Needs Prereqs- Analyzing a Simple Curve
 
- Hour 15: Holiday
Unit: Internal Energy
- Quiz
- Name the Experiment II (Heat and/or First Law)
 
- Hour 17: The second law Needs Prereqs Needs Prereqs- Lectures: Jargon- Second Law
- Reversible and Irreversible
- Adiabatic
- Quasistatic
 
 
- Hour 18: Entropy, expansion, and the Second Law Needs Prereqs Needs Prereqs- Free expansion not-quiz
- Discussion of not-quiz
 
- Hours 19-20: Legendre Transformations Needs Prereqs Needs Prereqs
- Hour 21: Maxwell relations- Maxwell Relations
- Maxwell Relation Activities
 
- Name The Experiment III
 
- Hours 23-24: Using a Maxwell relation to make an entropy change- QUIZ
- Lab: Rubber Band Lab
 
- Sometimes Always Never
 
- Hours 26-28: Holiday
Unit: Statistical Mechanics
- Hour 29: Statistical view of entropy- QUIZ
- Fairness Function and Probability
 
- Hour 30: Maximizing Entropy- Maximizing S
- Lagrange Multipliers
 
- Weighted Averages
- Derive Boltzman Ratio and connect to Thermo ($U = \sum p_iE_i$)
 
- Hour 32: Free- Free
 
- Hours 33-34: Exploring a Diatomic Gas- Diatomic Gas
 
- Hour 35: Review- Review
 
  
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