Course Progress

[B: Boltzmann's Vision; S: Serway 2nd Ed.]

Sections	Description				Date(s) Addressed
B1.1-4 		Temp., Heat, Specific Heat		Jan. 12, 13, 15 (took pictures)
S16.1-2  
S17.1-3
B2.1-2		Ideal Gas Model				Jan 15, 16
S16.4
B2:3		Degrees of Freedom			Jan 20, 22
S16.5
B2.4		Distn. of Molecular Speeds		Jan 22
B3.1		First Law of Thermo			Jan 23
S17.4-5
B3.2		Applic. of First Law of Thermo		Jan 23, 26
S17.6
B3.4		Phase Changes				
S17.3
B4.1-2		Engines and Thermo Efficiency		Jan 26, 27
S18.1-4
B4.3-4		Second Law of Thermo and Entropy	Jan 29
S18.5-9
B5.1		Probability and Entropy			Jan 30, Feb 2
B5.3		Microstates and Macrostates		Feb 2, 3(Exam), Feb 5
B5.4-5		Boltzmann Distribution			Feb 6, Feb 9
B6.1-3		Application of Boltzmann		Feb 10, Feb 12
B7.1		Fermions and Bosons			Feb 12
B7.2-3		PEP and Fermi-Dirac Distn.		Feb 13
B7.4		Bose-Einstein Distn.			Omit
B7.5		Classical Limit				Omit
B8.3		Quantum Electron Gas			Feb 13
B8.4		Neutron Stars				Omit
Begin Electricity and Magnetism (All from Serway).
19.1-4		Electric Charges and Coulombs Law	Feb 17, 19
19.5-6		Electric Fields and Field Lines		Feb 20, 23
19.7-8		Electric Flux and Gauss's Law		Feb 24, 26
19.9-10		Insulators and Conductors		Feb 27
20.1-2		Elect. Potential and Poten. Difference	Mar 2, 3(Exam)
20.3-5		Point and Continuous Charge Potential	Mar 5, 6(Mar 7-15 spring break)
20.6		Elect. Potential of Charged Conductor	Mar 16, 17
20.7-10		Capacitance				Mar 19, 20
21.1-2		Electric Current and Ohm's Law		Mar 23
21.3-4		Normal and Super Conductivity		Mar 23
21.5-6		Electic Power				Mar 24
21.7-9		DC and RC Circuits			Mar 24, 26
22.1-4		Magnetic Fields, Forces and Torques	Mar 26, 27, 30
22.5-6		B Field Source using Biot-Savart Law	Mar 31, Apr 2
22.7-8		B Field Source using Ampere's Law	Apr 2, 3
22.9		Magnetic Materials			Mar 26
23.1-3		Faraday's and Lenz's Law: Induction	Apr 6, 7(Exam)
23.4-7		Induced Electric Fields and Inductance	Apr 7, 9, 10
24.1		Displacement Current			Apr 13
24.2-3		Maxwell's Eqns. and El-Mag Waves	Apr 14, 16
24.4-7		Energy and Momentum of El-Mag Waves	Apr 17, 20
24.8-9		El-Mag Spectrum and Polarization	Apr 14, 21, 23
Relativity (All from Serway)
9.1-4		Newtonian vs. Einstein Relativity	Apr 24, 27
9.5		Lorentz Transformation			Apr 28
9.6-7		Relativistic Momentum and Energy	Apr 30