PHYSICS 400: statistical and thermal physics, spring 2006
Tim Gfroerer, Davidson College
Announcements and Class Demonstrations
*NOTE: Attendance at all physics seminars is strongly encouraged.
| Date Posted | Announcement or Demonstration |
| 1/10 |
Physics Department Research Open House (with pizza) - Thursday, 1/12 at 4pm in Dana 071. |
| 1/10 | Seminar on Thursday, 1/19 at 4:00: I will speak on Solar cells, sluggish capacitance, and a puzzling observation. |
| 1/10 | Equipartition Physlet |
| 1/12 | NO CLASS on Tuesday (1/24) and Thursday (1/26). |
| 1/12 | Physlet Physics Illustration 20.3: Thermodynamic Processes |
| 1/17 | Heat Capacity Applets |
| 1/19 | Microstates/Macrostates Physlet (select "movable partition") |
| 1/19 | Calculating multiplicities on Excel |
| 1/31 | Problem with big numbers |
| 2/2 | Seminar on Thursday, 2/9 at 4:00: Laura Greene (Univ. of Illinois) will speak on Detection of broken symmetries in high-temperature superconductors with planar tunneling spectroscopy. |
| 2/7 | Figure 3.1: Entropy and Temperature |
| 2/21 | Figure 3.14: Entropy and Pressure, Physlet Quantum Physics Section 15.2 |
| 2/23 | Carnot Cycle applet |
| 3/14 | Seminar on Thursday, 3/16 at 4:00: Jim Bowsher (Duke University Medical Center) will speak on PET, SPECT, and multi-modality imaging in healthcare and research |
| 3/14 | Otto engine simulator |
| 3/14 | Laser cooling |
| 3/28 | Van der Waals Model |
| 3/30 | Van der Waals constants |
| 4/4 | 1982 Nobel Prize: Phase Transitions |
| 4/11 | Maxwell speed distribution notebook |
| 4/20 | Seminar today at 4:00: Rick Robinett (Penn State) will speak on The infinite well and delta-function potentials as pedagogical, mathematical and physical models in quantum mechanics |
| 4/20 | Department Picnic at 5pm on Monday 4/24 at the Christian Farm |
| 4/20 | Semiconductor impurity notebook |