PHYS313 2008

COURSE CALENDAR:
Click on topic to get outline of lecture.

 

 

date

chapter

topic

Prep for next class

week 1

Mar 10

 

Syllabus. Review PHYS202. 

"quiz".

 

Mar 12

1

Define temperature. Temperature scales.

lead-in-question

 

Mar 14

 2, NIT

Ideal Gas. Ex- &intensive variables. Reversibility. Infinitesimals.

lead-in-question

week 2

Mar 17

 4

Heat Transfer Processes.

 

 

Mar 19

 4

Heat.

 

 

Mar 21

-

- no class

 

week 3

TUE, Mar 25

Work.

 lead-in-question

 

Mar 26

 4

First Law, Internal Energy.

 

 

Mar 28

 5, etc

 Ideal gas, liquid nitrogen.

 

week 4

Mar 31

 5, 12

 Ideal gas, micro and macro

 lead-in-question

 

Apr 2

 5

ideal gas - many equations

 

 

Apr 4

 

exam #1

 

week 5

Apr 7

 5

Speed of sound in ideal gas

 

 

Apr 9

6,7 

Perpetual motion machines and cycles

 lead-in-question

 

Apr 11

 6,7

Engines

 

week 6

Apr 14

6,7 

Engines and Entropy, Carnot cycle

 

 

Apr 16

6,7 

 Engines and Stirling engine

 

 

Apr 18

6,7 

 Engines and Otto engine

lead-in-question 

week 7

Apr 21

 6,7,NIT

 Refrigerators

Come with review Q's on Wed

 

Apr 23

 Entropy

 

 

Apr 25

 

exam #2

 

week 8

Apr 28

 8

 Entropy

 

 

Apr 30

8, 12 

 Microscopic view of entropy

 

 

May 2

 10

 Deriv's and Free Energies

 

week 9

May 5

10 

 Deriv's and Free Energies

 

 

May 7

 

 NO CLASS

 

 

May 9

 

 NO CLASS

 

week 10

May 12

 

 1st order phase transitions

 

 

May 14

 

 other phase transitions

 

 

May 16

 

phase transitions and other transformations, review

 

finals week

 

 

final exam