1 Monday

Introduction

Writing answers to HW questions
Introduction to Term Project
9 Rules for Typography in Physics
Classroom norms

SEWHA Chapter 1
SEWHA Chapter 2
SEWHA Chapter 3
SEWHA Chapter 8
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Lecture whiteboard

Homework 0
Homework 0 (pdf)

2 Wednesday

Quantities, not just numbers

Rain Power Estimate
A quick guide to LaTeX

Lecture whiteboard

3 Friday

Energy flow

Columbia river gorge
Conservation of Energy: First Law of Thermodynamics

Lecture whiteboard

Homework 1
Homework 1 (pdf)

4 Monday

Car efficiency

A coarse-grained model for transportation
Car efficiency

SEWHA Appendix A: Cars
SEWHA Appendix A: Cars II
SEWHA Appendix B: Wind II
SEWHA Appendix F: Waves II
6 Ideas Unit T: Ch 1 pages 4-14
Lecture whiteboard

5 Wednesday

Wind energy

6 Friday

Irreversibility

Homework 2
Homework 2 (pdf)

7 Monday

Entropy and heat

Dropping hot metal into water

"6 Ideas Unit T" by Thomas Moore:

Ch 2 (first half of chapter) pages 20-24 “Macrostates and microstates”
Ch 3 pages 38-47 “Entropy and Temperature”

Youtube videos:

How entropy powers the Earth by MinutePhysics
What is not random? by Veritasium

Monte Carlo video (redundant with Friday's lecture): Monte Carlo and multiplicity (6:28)

8 Wednesday

Temperature and entropy

Temperature and Entropy
Basics of heat engines
Efficiency of a car engine

9 Friday

Work and engines

Writing answers to HW questions
A gas heat engine
Work in a gas heat engine

Whiteboard from lecture

Homework 3
Homework 3 (pdf)

10 Monday

Gasses

A gas heat engine, continued
Heat in a gas heat engine

"6 Ideas Unit T" by Thomas Moore:

Section T5.4 Equipartition Theorem
Section T5.5 The Ideal Gas Law
Chapter T7 Gas Processes

11 Wednesday

Gasses, continued

The Carnot cycle

Video about Carnot Cycle (9:33)

12 Friday

Recap of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

Thermodynamics retrospective
Propagating uncertainty
Uncertainty in air density

Homework 4
Homework 4 (pdf)

13 Monday

Equipartition theorem

Equipartition theorem
Applying the equipartition theorem

14 Wednesday

Quantum mechanics and equipartition

Quantum mechanical correction to the equipartition theorem
Heat capacity of N$_2$

Video answer to why only quadratic terms obey equipartition (3:35)

15 Friday

Midterm exam

Practice midterm (not to be turned in)
Practice midterm (not to be turned in) (pdf)

16 Monday

Vibration and rotation

Introducing quantum mechanics
Travelling wave solution

"6 Ideas Unit Q" by Thomas Moore:

Chapter 1 pages 4-12 Wave Models
Chapter 2 pages 20-29 Standing Waves and Resonance

17 Wednesday

Waves

Solutions to the wave equation
Earthquake waves

18 Friday

Boundary conditions and musical instruments

Superposition and boundary conditions and music

Homework 5
Homework 5 (pdf)

19 Monday

Spectra

Quantum waves and spectra
Hydrogen emission

"6 Ideas Unit Q" by Thomas Moore:

Chapter 11 “Spectra”
Chapter 5 “The Wave Nature of Particles (de Broglie wavelength)”
Section 10.3 “A Quanton in a Box”

Videos to watch:

Electron microscopes explained by Physics Girl

20 Wednesday

Spectra continued

Hydrogen emission
Solvable quantum systems

21 Friday

Double-slit experiment and quantum weirdness

Interference and quantum weirdness
de Broglie wavelength after freefall

Homework 6: Term project draft
Homework 6: Term project draft (pdf)

22 Monday

Photons

Photons
Seeing stars

"6 Ideas Unit Q" by Thomas Moore:

Chapter 4 “The Particle Nature of Light”

23 Wednesday

Planck's Law and Stefan Boltzmann Law

Thermal radiation
Energy radiated from one oscillator
Thermal radiation at twice the temperature

24 Friday

Thermal radiation

Planck spectral distribution
Blackbody PhET

Homework 7
Homework 7 (pdf)

25 Monday

Radiation and energy flow

Review for second midterm
Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law
Grey space capsule

26 Wednesday

Temperature of Earth

Temperature of the Earth
Optical depth of atmosphere

27 Friday

Midterm

Practice problems for midterm 2
Practice problems for midterm 2 (pdf)

28 Wednesday

Earth under plexiglass

29 Friday

Fission and fusion
Size scale and energy scale and nuclei

Fission and fusion
Hydrogen fusion

Homework 8: (including Term Project)
Homework 8: (including Term Project) (pdf)

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