Lectures¶

Week 1¶

• Slides: Introduction (01/23/2026)

Week 2¶

• Warm up 0
• Slides: Equilibrium and Elasticity (01/30/2026)

Week 3¶

• Warm up 1
• Slides: Fluids at Rest (02/02/2026)
• Warm up 2
• Slides: Fluids in motion (02/06/2026)

Week 4¶

• Warm up 3
• Slides: Transverse Waves (02/09/2026)
• Warm up 4
• Slides: Transverse Wave Interference (taught by Prof. Dalley) (02/13/2026)

Week 5¶

• Warm up 5
• Slides: Longitudinal Wave Properties (02/16/2026)
• Warm up 6
• Slides: Longitudinal Wave Sounds (02/20/2026)

Week 6¶

• Warm up 7
• Slides: Temperature, Heat, Thermal Expansion (02/27/2026)

Week 7¶

• Warm up 8
• Slides: 1^st law of thermodynamics (03/02/2026)
• Review problems
• Warm up 9
• Slides: Kinetic Theory of Gases (03/06/2026)

Week 8¶

• Warm up 10 (due after spring break)
• Kinetic Theory of Gases (03/09/2026)
• Midterm (03/13/2026)

Week 9¶

• Spring break

Week 10¶

• Warm up 10
• Maxwell Distribution (03/23/2026)
• Degrees of freedom (03/27/2026)

Week 11¶

• Warm up 11
• Second Law of thermodynamics (03/30/2026)