Physics 423

• Lab 1: Heat and Temperature
  
  • Dulong-Petit Law
    

• First and Second Laws
  
  • System and surroundings
    
• First Law
  
• Second Law and Entropy
  
  • Fast and slow
    
• The thermodynamic identity
  
• Heat capacity
  

Chapter 4
5.1.2.2

• Second Law lab
  

Lab 1 due

• Heat and work
  

Quiz

• Engines and Fridges
  
  • Other views of the Second Law
    
  • Carnot efficiency
    

Lab 2 due

Homework 1 due
solutions

• Monotonicity and invertibility
  
• Thermodynamic potentials
  
  • Legendre transform
    
• Maxwell relations
  

Chapter 7
Chapter 7

• Lab 2: rubber band
  

Prelab 3 due

Homework 2 due
solutions

• Thermodynamics practice
  

• Black bodies and statistics
  
• Blackbody radiation
  

Lab 3 due

• Statistical approach
  
• Fairness function
  
• Least bias lagrangian
  

Chapter 6

• From statistics to thermodynamics
  
• Thermodynamic properties from the Boltzmann factor
  

• Statistical mechanics of air
  
• Quantum spectra
  
• Diatomic gas
  

Homework 3 due
solutions

• Statistical mechanics of air
  

• Diatomic gas wrapup
  
• Third law
  
  • Ice rules
    

Measurement of entropy of water
Pauling ice rules
Entropy of water revisited

Homework 4 due
solutions

• Final exam