PHYS 213 Fall 2025
PHYS 213 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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The book chapter recommendations are supplementary to the prelecture notes. Generally the course follows the notes very closely, and the book only approximately.
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| Week | Date | Prelectures | Checkpoints | Lectures | Prelabs/Labs | Discussions | Homework | Exams |
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Monday
10/20/2025 |
Prelecture 1 | Checkpoint 1 | Lecture 1: Internal energy Book: Introduction Chapter 1 |
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Tuesday
10/21/2025 |
No lab activities this week |
Discussion 1 Solution |
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Wednesday
10/22/2025 |
Prelecture 2 | Checkpoint 2 | Lecture 2: Temperature, heat capacity Book: Chapters 3 A-D |
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Thursday
10/23/2025 |
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Friday
10/24/2025 |
No lectures on Fridays! |
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Monday
10/27/2025 |
Prelecture 3 | Checkpoint 3 | Lecture 3: Entropy Book: Chapter 2, 5 |
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Tuesday
10/28/2025 |
No lab activities |
Discussion 2 Solution |
Homework 1 due Homework 2 due |
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Wednesday
10/29/2025 |
Prelecture 4 | Checkpoint 4 | Lecture 4: Entropy II Book: Chapter 6 |
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Thursday
10/30/2025 |
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Friday
10/31/2025 |
Worked problems | |||||||
| 3 |
Monday
11/3/2025 |
Prelecture 5 | Checkpoint 5 | Lecture 5: Kinetic theory of the ideal gas Book: Chapter 3 |
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Tuesday
11/4/2025 |
Discussion 3 Solution |
Homework 3 due Homework 4 due |
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Wednesday
11/5/2025 |
Prelecture 6 | Checkpoint 6 | Lecture 6: Quasistatic processes Book: Chapter 4 A-C |
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Thursday
11/6/2025 |
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Friday
11/7/2025 |
Worked problems | Exam 1 (Units 1-4) Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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| 4 |
Monday
11/10/2025 |
Prelecture 7 | Checkpoint 7 | Lecture 7: Thermodynamic cycles Book: Chapter 4 E-F |
Exam 1 (Units 1-4) Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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Tuesday
11/11/2025 |
No lab activities |
Discussion 4 Solution |
Homework 5 due Homework 6 due |
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Wednesday
11/12/2025 |
Prelecture 8 | Checkpoint 8 | Lecture 8: Gibbs free energy and phases Book: Chapter 10E |
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Thursday
11/13/2025 |
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Friday
11/14/2025 |
Worked problems | |||||||
| 5 |
Monday
11/17/2025 |
Prelecture 9 | Checkpoint 9 | Lecture 9: Phase diagrams and phase boundaries |
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Tuesday
11/18/2025 |
Prelab 2 Lab 2: Ideal gas law |
Discussion 5 Solution |
Homework 7 due Homework 8 due |
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Wednesday
11/19/2025 |
Prelecture 10 | Checkpoint 10 | Lecture 10: Boltzmann factors (Chapter 8) |
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Thursday
11/20/2025 |
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Friday
11/21/2025 |
Worked problems | |||||||
| 6 |
Monday
11/24/2025 |
Fall break, no class | ||||||
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Tuesday
11/25/2025 |
Fall break, no class | No lab activities this week |
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Wednesday
11/26/2025 |
Fall break, no class | |||||||
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Thursday
11/27/2025 |
Fall break, no class | |||||||
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Friday
11/28/2025 |
Fall break, no class | |||||||
| 7 |
Monday
12/1/2025 |
Prelecture 11 | Checkpoint 11 | Lecture 11: Heat capacity of a solid revisited (Chapter 9) Book: Chapters 8 |
Exam 2 (Units 5-8) Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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Tuesday
12/2/2025 |
Prelab 3 Lab 3: Phase Transitions |
Discussion 6 Solution |
Homework 9 due Homework 10 due |
Exam 2 (Units 5-8) Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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Wednesday
12/3/2025 |
Prelecture 12 | Checkpoint 12 |
Lecture 12: Boltzmann factors and semiconductors (chapter 12C) |
Exam 2 (Units 5-8) Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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Thursday
12/4/2025 |
Exam 2 (Units 5-8) Sign-Up for an exam time in PrairieTest. |
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Friday
12/5/2025 |
Worked problems | |||||||
| 8 |
Monday
12/8/2025 |
Checkpoint 13 | Lecture 13: Greenhouse effects |
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Tuesday
12/9/2025 |
No lab activities this week |
Discussion 7 (at home problems) Solution |
Homework 11 due Homework 12 due |
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Wednesday
12/10/2025 |
Checkpoint 14 | Lecture 14: Final Review |
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Thursday
12/11/2025 |
Reading Day | |||||||
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Friday
12/12/2025 |
Worked problems |