PHYS 213 Spring 2025
PHYS 213 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
If you have any issues logging in to view any of the secured documents below, please try adding "uofi\" (without the quotes) in front of your netid.
The book chapter recommendations are supplementary to the prelecture notes. Generally the course follows the notes very closely, and the book only approximately.
| Week | Date | Prelectures | Checkpoints | Lectures | Prelabs/Labs | Discussions | Homework | Exams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday 3/10/2025 | Prelecture 1 | Checkpoint 1 | Lecture 1: Internal energy Book: Introduction Chapter 1 | No lab activities this week | Discussion 1 Solution | ||
Tuesday 3/11/2025 | ||||||||
Wednesday 3/12/2025 | Prelecture 2 | Checkpoint 2 | Lecture 2: Temperature, heat capacity Book: Chapters 3 A-D | |||||
Thursday 3/13/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 3/14/2025 | No lectures on Fridays! | |||||||
| 2 | Monday 3/17/2025 | Spring break, no class | ||||||
Tuesday 3/18/2025 | ||||||||
Wednesday 3/19/2025 | ||||||||
Thursday 3/20/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 3/21/2025 | ||||||||
| 3 | Monday 3/24/2025 | Prelecture 3 | Checkpoint 3 | Lecture 3: Entropy Book: Chapter 2, 5 | Prelab 1 Lab 1: Thermal properties of materials | Discussion 2 Solution | ||
Tuesday 3/25/2025 | Homework 1 due Homework 2 due | |||||||
Wednesday 3/26/2025 | Prelecture 4 | Checkpoint 4 | Lecture 4: Entropy II Book: Chapter 6 | |||||
Thursday 3/27/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 3/28/2025 | ||||||||
| 4 | Monday 3/31/2025 | Prelecture 5 | Checkpoint 5 | Lecture 5: Kinetic theory of the ideal gas Book: Chapter 3 | No lab activities this week | Discussion 3 Solution | ||
Tuesday 4/1/2025 | Homework 3 due Homework 4 due | |||||||
Wednesday 4/2/2025 | Prelecture 6 | Checkpoint 6 | Lecture 6: Quasistatic processes Book: Chapter 4 A-C | |||||
Thursday 4/3/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 4/4/2025 | ||||||||
| 5 | Monday 4/7/2025 | Prelecture 7 | Checkpoint 7 | Lecture 7: Thermodynamic cycles Book: Chapter 4 E-F | No lab activities this week | Discussion 4 Solution | ||
Tuesday 4/8/2025 | Homework 5 due Homework 6 due | Hour Exam 1 (04/09-11) | ||||||
Wednesday 4/9/2025 | Prelecture 8 | Checkpoint 8 | Lecture 8: Gibbs free energy: equilibrium in contact with a bath Book: Chapter 10E | |||||
Thursday 4/10/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 4/11/2025 | ||||||||
| 6 | Monday 4/14/2025 | Prelecture 9 | Checkpoint 9 | Lecture 9: Chemical potential and phase diagrams | Prelab 2 Lab 2: Ideal Gas Law | Discussion 5 Solution | ||
Tuesday 4/15/2025 | Homework 7 due Homework 8 due | |||||||
Wednesday 4/16/2025 | Prelecture 10 | Checkpoint 10 | Lecture 10: Ideal solutions | |||||
Thursday 4/17/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 4/18/2025 | ||||||||
| 7 | Monday 4/21/2025 | Prelecture 11 | Checkpoint 11 | Lecture 11: Microscopic probabilities: Boltzmann Book: Chapters 8 | No lab activities this week | Discussion 6 Solution | ||
Tuesday 4/22/2025 | Homework 9 due Homework 10 due | |||||||
Wednesday 4/23/2025 | Lecture 11 part 2 | Hour Exam 2 (04/23-25) | ||||||
Thursday 4/24/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 4/25/2025 | ||||||||
| 8 | Monday 4/28/2025 | Prelecture 12 | Checkpoint 12 | Lecture 12: Boltzmann examples Book: Chapters 9 | Prelab 3 Lab 3: Phase Transitions | Discussion 7 Solution | ||
Tuesday 4/29/2025 | Homework 11 due
| |||||||
Wednesday 4/30/2025 | Prelecture 13 | Checkpoint 13 | Lecture 13: Application to semiconductors Book: Chapters 12C | |||||
Thursday 5/1/2025 | ||||||||
Friday 5/2/2025 | ||||||||
| 9 | Monday 5/5/2025 | Lecture 14: Thermodynamics and climate | ||||||
Tuesday 5/6/2025 | Homework 12 due Homework 13 due | |||||||
Wednesday 5/7/2025 | Lecture 15: Final review | |||||||
Thursday 5/8/2025 | Reading Day | |||||||
Friday 5/9/2025 | Final Exam (05/08-15) | |||||||