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Week Date	HW Warmup	Reading/ Discussion Topic	Sol.	Week Date	HW	Reading/ Discussion Topic	Sol.
01 Jan. 5	1	1.1-1.3 Equilibrium, ideal gases, equipartition		08 Feb. 23	hw17 18	5.3 (continued, pages 180-186) Van der Waals model	sol17
Jan. 7	hw01 2	1.4-1.5 Energy, temperature, work, ideal gases	sol01	Feb. 25	hw18 19	5.4 Phase Transformations of Mixtures (pages 186-194)	sol18
Jan. 9	hw02 3	1.6 Enthalpy and heat capacity	sol02	Feb. 27	hw19 20	5.4 Phase transformations of Mixtures (continued, pages 194-200)	sol19
02 Jan. 12	hw03 4	2.1--2.2 Two state systems, Einstein model of a solid	sol03	09 Mar. 2	hw20 21	6.1 The Boltzmann Factor (BIG change of gears starts here---from thermodynamics to statistical mechanics)	sol20
Jan. 14	hw04 5	2.3 Interacting systems	sol04	Mar. 4		Exam 2, No Class (Exam covers materials up through Chap. 5 only.) Exam starts Tuesday and ends Thursday night. Cover sheet	sol02
Jan. 16	hw05 6	2.4 Very large numbers	sol05	Mar. 6	hw21 22	6.2--6.3 Average Values and the Equipartition Theorem	sol21
03Jan. 19		Holiday (No class)		10 Mar. 9	hw22 23	6.4 The Maxwell Speed Distribution	sol22
Jan. 21	hw06 7	2.5 An application: The ideal gas	sol06	Mar. 11	hw23 24	6.5--6.6 Partition Functions and Free Energy, and Partition Functions for Composite Systems	sol23
Jan. 23		No class (I'm gone to Ringberg Germany)		Mar. 13	hw24 25	A.1--A3 Quantum Mechanics Review (read pages 357--373)	sol24
04 Jan. 26	hw07 8	2.6 Entropy (Don't say its disorder or randomness! Why not?)	sol07	11 Mar. 16	hw25 26	6.7 Revisiting the Ideal Gas	sol25
Jan. 28	hw08 9	3.1 Temperature (What is it? Finally...)	sol08	Mar. 18	hw26 27	7.1 The Gibbs Factor	sol26
Jan. 30	hw09 10	3.2 Heat & Entropy	sol09	Mar. 20	hw27 28	7.2 Bosons and Fermions	sol27
05 Feb. 2	hw10 11	3.3 Paramagnetism	sol10	12 Mar. 23		Gone to SST-NREL symposium. No class.
Feb. 4	hw11 12	3.4 Mechanical Equilibrium and Pressure	sol11	Mar. 25	hw28 29	7.3 Degenerate Fermi Gases (read pages 271-279)	sol28
Feb. 6		Review (you lead the discussion---I'll be a resource.) Previous year's Exam 1		Mar. 27	hw29 30	7.3 Degenerate Fermi Gases (continued, read pages 280-288)* Here is a cool applet related to our discussion today. Exam 2 correction are due at 9:00 am today	sol29
06 Feb. 9		Exam 1 (Mon. &Tues.) Cover sheet (No corrections this time; the average was really high.)	exam1sol	13 Mar. 30		Exam 3, No Class (Exam covers material up through 7.2	sol03
Feb. 11	hw12 13	3.5-3.6 Diffusive Equilibrum and Chemical Potential	sol12	Apr. 1	hw30 31	7.4 Blackbody radiation	sol30
Feb. 13	hw13 14	4.1--4.2 Heat Engines & Refrigerators	sol13	Apr. 3	hw31 32	7.5 Debye theory of solids	sol31
07 Feb. 17	hw14 15	5.1 Free Energy as Available Work	sol14	14 Apr. 6	hw32 33	7.6 Bose-Einstein Condensation	sol32
Feb. 18	hw15 16	5.2 Free Energy as a Force toward Equilibrium	sol15	Apr. 8	hw33 34	8.2 Ising Model of a Ferromagnet: Exact solution and mean field solution	sol33
Feb. 20	hw16 17	5.3 Phase Transformations of Pure Substances (pages 166-174) The Elusive Chemical Potential by Ralph Baierlein Write-up of chemical potential article is due with the HW today.	sol16	Apr. 10	hw34 35	8.2 Ising Model of a Ferromagnet: Monte Carlo simulation ising.m, energy.m, bringIntoCell.m alloy.m, alloyEnergy.m	sol34
Final Exam: 7:00 am -10:00 am Sat. Apr. 18 Cover sheet (Sorry, no testing center this time.) sol04				15 Apr. 13	hw35 36	8.1 Weakly interacting gases	sol35