| Date | Topics | Slides, etc... | Reading/Homework |
| Sept 5th | Introduction | slides | 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 PDF on Canvas |
| Sept 7th | 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. | slides | Do the reading
assignment on Canvas Do the reading quiz 2A on Canvas by 9am Monday |
| Sept 10th | Thermometers and temperature scales. Gas
thermometers and the ideal gas law. Absolute temperature scales. |
slides gas simulation |
Written homework 1 (due Sept
19) HW1 solutions |
Sept 12th
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Linear relations vs proportionality relations. Kelvin scale. Thermometers. Thermal expansion. | slides | reading quiz 2B on Canvas by 9am Friday Think about the last clicker question (about the piston) Make sure you have read about Young's modulus. |
| Sept 14th | More thermal expansion, area and volume expansion, Young's modulus, stress, strain |
slides worksheet |
for Monday: finish worksheet (to prepare for lecture - you won't need to hand it in) Do reading quiz 3A (review chapter 17.4 if necessary) |
Sept 17th |
more on volume expansion, Young's modulus, stress, strain | slides | for Wednesday: hand in homework 1 in the boxes near Life building room 2408 |
| Sept 19th | Thermal stress. Problems combining thermal expansion and stress/strain. |
slides Newton's Laws for static situtations |
for Friday: read chapter 17.5 and 17.6 (up to equation
17.20) and do reading quiz 3B on Canvas Written homework 2, due next Wednesday HW2 solutions |
| Sept 21st | Heat capacity, specific heat. |
slides | |
| Sept 24th | Phase diagrams, phase changes, latent heat. Calorimetry. |
slides | for Wednesday: read the conduction section in chapter
17.7 (just 2 pages!), do reading quiz 4A on Canvas for Friday: read the rest of 17.7, do reading quiz 4B on Canvas |
| Sept 26th |
Heat conduction, thermal conductivity. | slides worksheet |
for Friday: read the rest of 17.7 (on
radiation), do reading quiz 4B on Canvas Homework 3: due Wednesday, October 3rd |
| Sept 28th | More conductivity, R values |
slides | for Monday: fill out the survey |
| Oct 1st | Convection and radiation. Temperature dependence of spectrum and power emitted | slides | |
Oct 3rd |
Emissivity, equilibrium temperature of radiating objects. | slides | |
Oct 5th | The solar constant, albedo, temperature of the Earth, greenhouse effect. | slides | |
Oct 10th | Molecular picture of forces from a gas. Ideal gas law. | slides | for Friday: read 6.1 (first page), 19.1 and 19.2 and do the reading quiz for week 6 Homework 4: due Wednesday, October 17th |
| Oct 12th | First law of thermodynamics. Work |
slides | |
| Oct 15th | 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 quiz 7A |
| Oct 17th | Internal energy. Free expansion of gas. Calculating heat using the first law. Constant volume processes. | slides | Homework 5: due Wednesday, October 24th Homework 5 bonus question (both of these will be posted Wednesday evening). |
| Oct 19th | Constant pressure, constant temperature, and adiabatic processes. |
slides extra clicker questions |
reading for Monday: see instructions in the reading quiz on Canvas. |
Oct 22nd |
Adiabatic compression example. Efficiency of a heat engine. | slides | For Wednesday: make sure you have read 20.2,20.3 |
| Oct 24th | The internal combustion engine. Example of calculating efficiency. | slides | For Friday: read 20.4 and do the reading quiz Homework 6: due Wednesday, October 31st |
Oct 26th | The power of an engine. Refrigerators. | slides | For Monday: Do the reading quiz on Canvas. |
Oct 29th | Refrigerators and air conditioners. Why does heat flow from hot to cold. Frogs and entropy. | slides frog simulation | |
Oct 31st |
Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Relation between entropy, heat, and temperature. |
slides Bonus video |
For Friday: Read 20.6 up to equation 20.14, and section 8.5 in the "Extra Book on Entropy" on Canvas (also in the text from the textbook package) Do reading quiz on Carnot Cycles and TS diagrams. |
| Nov 2nd | 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. |
| Nov 5th | Mechanical equilibrium, restoring forces, oscillations, simple harmonic motion | slides | |
| Nov 7th | Simple harmonic motion, amplitude, period, angular frequency, velocity, acceleration, phase. | slides | Homework 7: due Wednesday, November 14th For Friday: do reading assignment on phase (one question). |
| Nov 9th | Simple harmonic motion, finding phase, displacement/velocity/acceleration | slides | For Wednesday: read this page on the buoyant force, and do the reading quiz on buoyancy on Canvas (2 questions) |
| Nov 14th | Simple harmonic motion examples: predicting amplitude and frequency in physical situations. Buoyancy and bobbing. | slides worksheet |
For Friday: do reading assignment on energy in SHM. |
| Nov 16th | Simple harmonic motion from small oscillations with non-linear forces. Kinetic and potential energy in simple harmonic motion. | slides | Homework 8: due Wednesday, November 21st For Monday: do reading assignment on damped oscillations. |
| Nov 19th | More on energy, damped oscillation. | slides | |
| Nov 21st | Damped oscillation from drag forces, critical damping | slides | |
| Nov 23rd | Driven periodic motion, resonance. |
slides Scratch simulation |
Homework 9: due Friday, November 30th for Monday: read 15.1-15.3, up to and including the section "more on the wave function" and do the reading quiz on waves |
Nov 26th | Coupled oscillators, transverse and longitudinal waves, waves on stretched strings, in solids, and in fluids | slides | |
| Nov 28th | Mathematical description of traveling waves. Wavelength, wave number. Relation between wave velocity, period, and wavelength | slides | |
| Nov 30th |
Gravitational waves |
slides | |