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