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.

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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.

Diagnostic questions

Overview of daily topics, arranged by week

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