| Date | Topics | Slides, etc... | Reading/Homework |
Sept 4th | Introduction | lecture 1 notes | Read
chapter 17.1 Do the reading quiz on Canvas by 9am Friday (not for credit this time) NOTE: if you haven't been able to get the textbook yet, Chapter 17 is available as a PDFon Canvas or here: Chapter 17 |
| Sept 6th | What is thermodynamics? Energy conservation. Effects of heating/cooling on macroscopic properties of objects. IR radiation as a way to "see" microscopic energy. Equilibrium, temperature, and heat. Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics. | lecture 2 notes | Read chapters 17.2,17.3,17.4 (up to Thermal Expansion of Water) Do the reading quiz 2 on Canvas by 9am Monday Before your tutorial: read these notes on Young's modulus |
| Sept 9th | Thermometers and temperature scales. The Celcius scale. Definition of Pressure. Gas thermometers and the ideal gas law. The Kelvin scale. | lecture 3 notes gas simulation | |
Sept 11th
| Linear relations vs proportionality relations. Kelvin scale. Thermometers. Thermal expansion. | lecture 4 slides | Homework 1 (due Sept
18, 5pm) |
| Sept 13th | More thermal expansion, area and volume expansion | lecture 5 slides |
Do the reading quiz 3 on Canvas by 9am Monday (17.4,17.5) |
| Young's modulus Tutorial solutions | |||
Sept 16th | more on volume expansion, Young's modulus, stress, strain | lecture 6 slides | for Wednesday: hand in homework 1 in the boxes near Life building room 2408 |
| Sept 18th | Thermal stress. Problems with thermal expansion and stress/strain in multipart systems | slides Newton's Laws for static situtations | Homework 2 (due Sept 25, 5pm) |
| Sept 21st | Heat capacity, specific heat. | slides |
Do the reading quiz 4 on Canvas by 9am Monday (17.6,17.7) |
| thermal expansion tutorial solutions | |||
| Sept 23th | Phase diagrams, phase changes, latent heat. Calorimetry. | slides | |
| Sept 25th | Heat conduction, thermal conductivity. | slides | Homework 3: due Wednesday, October 2nd |
| Sept 27th | More conductivity | slides |
Do the reading assignment/quiz 5 on Canvas by 9am Monday for Monday: fill out the survey |
| Heat capacity and phase change tutorial solutions | |||
| Sept 30th | Insulation and R values. Convection and radiation. Electromagnetic waves, spectrum graphs. | slides | |
Oct 2nd | Temperature dependence of spectrum and power emitted for thermal radiation. Emissivity, equilibrium temperature of radiating objects. | slides | No homework for next week, just complete and hand in tutorial by Monday at 5pm |
Oct 4th | The solar constant, albedo, temperature of the Earth, greenhouse effect. | slides | Do the reading assignment/quiz 6 on Canvas by 9am Monday |
| Conductivity/radiation tutorial solutions | |||
Oct 7th | Molecular picture of forces from a gas. Ideal gas law. | slides | |
| Oct 9th | First law of thermodynamics. Work | slides | |
| Oct 11th | Work for gases, PV diagrams, Work as area on a PV diagram. Internal energy. | slides bonus video on area under a curve | for Wednesday: do reading assignment/quiz 7 |
| Midterm 1 Midterm 1 solutions | |||
| Oct 16th | Internal energy. Free expansion of gas. Calculating heat using the first law. | slides |
due Wednesday, October 23rd |
| Oct 18th | Constant volume, constant pressure, constant temperature, and adiabatic processes. | slides | Do the reading assignment/quiz 8 on Canvas by 9am Monday |
| Gas processes tutorial solutions | |||
Oct 21st | Review of isochoric, isobaric, isothermal, and adiabatic processes. Adiabatic compression example. | slides | For Wednesday: please read 20.2,20.3 |
| Oct 23rd | The internal combustion engine. Example of calculating efficiency. | slides | For Friday: read 20.4 Homework 6: due Wednesday, October 30th |
Oct 25th | The power of an engine. Refrigerators. | slides | For Monday: Do the reading quiz on Canvas. |
| Heat engines and more gas processes tutorial solutions | |||
Oct 28th | Refrigerators and air conditioners. Why does heat flow from hot to cold. Frogs and entropy. | slides frog simulation | |
Oct 30st | Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Relation between entropy, heat, and temperature. | slides Bonus video | For Friday: Do reading quiz on Carnot Cycles and TS diagrams. |
| Nov 1st | Entropy examples, TS diagrams, calculating efficiency from TS diagrams. Carnot cycle and maximum possible efficiency. | slides | For Monday: do reading assignment on oscillations. Hand in your tutorial by 5pm Monday. |
| Midterm review tutorial solutions | |||
| Nov 4th | Mechanical equilibrium, restoring forces, oscillations, simple harmonic motion | slides | |
| Nov 6th | Simple harmonic motion, amplitude, period, angular frequency, velocity, acceleration, phase. | slides | Homework 7: due Wednesday, November 13th |
| Nov 8th | Displacement/velocity/acceleration in simple harmonic motion | slides | For Wednesday: do the reading quiz on Canvas |
| Oscillations tutorial solutions | |||
| Nov 13th | Simple harmonic motion from small oscillations with non-linear forces. | slides worksheet | Homework 8: due Wednesday, November 20th solutions |
| Nov 15th | Energy in simple harmonic motion, damped oscillations. | slides | For Monday: do reading assignment on waves. |
| Nov 18th | Drag forces, damped oscillations, driven periodic motion, resonance. | slides Scratch simulation | |
Nov 20th | Coupled oscillators, transverse and longitudinal waves, waves on stretched strings, in solids, and in fluids | slides | Homework 9: due Wednesday, November 27th |
| Nov 22nd | Mathematical description of traveling sinusoidal waves. Wavelength, wave number. Relation between wave velocity, period, and wavelength. | slides wave simulation | For Monday: do reading assignment on superposition and interference |
| Nov 25th | Principle of Superposition, standing waves, wave velocity | slides | |
Nov 27th | Constructive and destructive interference | slides | |
| Nov 30th | Gravitational waves | slides | |