Date	Day	Chapter/Section	Topics	Additional Notes
AUG 22	M	Overview and Ch 1	Discussion of syllabus and introduction	lecture 1
AUG 24	W	1, 2	Heat and temperature	lecture 2
AUG 26	F	4	Microstate, macrostates, and temperature	lecture 3
AUG 29	M	4	Ensembles and Boltzmann factor	lecture 4
AUG 31	W	4	Review, Boltzmann factor, two-level system	lecture 5 and 6
SEP 2	F	5	two level system (class cancelled due to weather)
SEP 5	M		Labor Day (no classes)
SEP 7	W	5	Two level system, Quiz 1 (postponed)
SEP 9	F	5, 6	Velocity distribution in a monatomic ideal gas, Ideal gas equation, Quiz 1
SEP 12	M	6	Ideal gas equation	lecture 8
SEP 14	W		Quiz 2 and Review	Review 1
SEP 15	R		Test 1
SEP 16	F	6	Ideal gas equation
SEP 19	M	11	First law of thermodynamics	lecture 11
SEP 21	W	11, 12	First law, specific heat, isothermal and adiabatic processes
SEP 23	F	12	Isothermal and adiabatic processes
SEP 26	M	13	Carnot cycle	Carnot cycle
SEP 28	W	13	Carnot cycle and second law of thermodynamics, Quiz 3
SEP 30	F	13	Second law of thermodynamics, Claussius inequality	lecture 16
OCT 3	M	14	Second law and entropy
OCT 5	W	14	Entropy, reversible and irreversible processes, Quiz 4
OCT 7	F	14	Reversible and irreversible processes, Joule expansion (class cancelled due to weather)
OCT 10	M	14	Joule expansion	Joule expansion
OCT 12	W	14	Mixing and Maxwell's demon
OCT 12	W		Review, 6:30 pm in room NPB 2165	Review 2
OCT 13	R		Test 2
OCT 14	F		Homecoming (no classes)
OCT 17	M	16	Thermodynamic potentials
OCT 19	W	16	Maxwell's relations and available energy
OCT 21	F	16	Maxwell's relations and available energy
OCT 24	M	17	Rods, Bubbles, and Magnets
OCT 26	W	17	Magnetic work and cooling
OCT 28	F	18	Third law
OCT 31	M	26	Real gases, Quiz 5
NOV 2	W	26	Van der Waals equation of state
NOV 4	F	26	Reduced form of van der Waals equation of state	vdW equation
NOV 7	M	26	Maxwell's construction, Quiz 6
NOV 9	W	27	Cooling real gases	cooling
NOV 11	F		Veterans Day
NOV 14	M		Review
NOV 15	T		Test 3
NOV 16	W	27, 28	Joule-Thomson effect, Phase transitions
NOV 18	F	28	Phase transitions
NOV 21	M		Miscellaneous topics, He liquefier visit	Helium liquefier
NOV 23	W		Thanksgiving (no classes)
NOV 25	F		Thanksgiving (no classes)
NOV 28	M	28	Phase transitions, Claussius-Clayperon equation	Transitions
NOV 30	W	28	Metastability	Nucleation
DEC 2	F	28	Metastability, Gibb's phase rule
DEC 5	M		Quiz 7, Equipartition theorem
DEC 7	W		Review	Review
DEC 14	W		Final exam (10:00 am to 12:00 noon)