in vivo schedule
PAST and
FUTURE
Week 01: Jan. 7 No class.
Jan. 9 Introduction of Course, Chapter 1. Ch. 1 Problems: 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Jan. 11 Finish Chapter 1, and start Chapter 2.
Ch. 2 Problems: 4, 6, 8, 9, 13, 19.
Begin Kinetic Theory Discussion.
Week 02: Jan. 14 Quiz 1 on Chapter 1 material and related topics of “macroscopic” thermodynamics.
Continue Discussion on Kinetic Theory. Equipartition of Energy.
Jan. 16 "The Mole" handout. Percolation handout and assignment, results emailed by 9 pm 21 Jan.
Finish Kinetic Theory, Start Probabilities (Ch. 3).
Jan. 18 Finish Ch. 3 Start Ch. 4.
Week 03: Jan. 21 No Class, Holiday
Jan. 23 Early aspects of Ch. 4.
Jan. 25 Chapter 4, continued.
Quiz 2 (on material Q1 to end of 18 Jan.).
Week 04: Jan. 28 Chapt. 4, continued, 2D Ising example.
Jan. 30 Problems for Chapter 4: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14.
"2D rubber band"
Feb. 1 Quiz 3.
Week 05: Feb. 4 Finish Chapter 4. Pose "typical questions". Material to the end of the day "fair" for MTE 1.
Feb. 6 Review for MTE 1. Do "typical questions".
Feb. 8 MTE 1.
Week 6: Feb. 11 Review MTE 1. Start Chapter 5. Problems Ch. 5: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 20, 22, 23, 26.
Feb. 13 Continue Ch. 5. Extension to macroscopic thermodynamics.
Feb. 15 Quiz 4. Two level systems and harmomic oscillators. Extra Problems handout.
Week 7: Feb. 18 Review Quiz. Review the rest of Chapter 5. Internal energy of two-level system. Extra problem #1.
Feb. 20 Finish Ch. 5. Extra Problem #2. Related Problems.
Feb. 22 Do some extra problems.
Week 8: Feb. 25 Finish extra problems, harmonic oscillator trick. Review for MTE 2.
Feb. 27 MTE 2.
Mar. 1 Review MTE 2. Visit Microkelvin Lab.
Week 9: No Classes, Spring Break
Week 10: Mar. 11 Do Ch. 6 and 7.
Chapter 6 Problems: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9.
Chapter 7 Problems: 2, 4, 5, 10, 13, 16.
Solutions to be in glass case on 12 March, before noon.
Material is for Quiz 5 for 15 March.
Mar. 13 Start Chapter 8. Problems: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12
Mar. 15 Continue Ch. 8. Quiz 5.
Week 11: Mar. 18 Guest Lecture by Prof. Hagen
Mar. 20 Continue Ch. 8 with discussion of specific heats.
Mar. 22 Finish Ch. 8, start Ch. 9, Problems 1, 3, 4, 5, 9. Quiz 6.
Week 12: Mar. 25 Review Quiz 6. Continue discussion of chemical potential.
Mar. 27 Start Chapter 10. Parallel discussion to contrast Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein Statistics.
Mar. 29 Review discussion from Wednesday. Emphasize Boltzmann, Maxwell-Boltxmann, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac Statistics.
Assign Chapter 10 Problems: 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15. Quiz 7.
Week 13: Apr. 1 Review Quiz 7 of magnons in 3D. Work on magnons in 2D. Start discussion of Fermi gas.
Apr. 3 Continue discussion of Fermi gas.
Apr. 5 "Spintronics" introduced. BEC Video Games. Quiz 8.
Week 14: Apr. 8 Review Quiz 8. Review Science Paper introducing "Spintronics".
Motivate BEC.
Apr. 10
Apr. 12 Course Evaluations and Quiz 9.
Week 15: Apr. 15 Highlights on Chapter 11 and 12.
Apr. 17 Start Review for MTE 3 and Final Exam.
Apr. 19 Prepare for MTE 3.
Week 16: Apr. 22 MTE 3.
Apr. 24 Review MTE 3. Review course.
Apr. 26 No Class, “Reading” Day