PHYS 108 - TENTATIVE OUTLINE FOR SPRING 2005:

${\cal H}$ = look it up in the HyperTextBook or the Skeptic's Guide.

Week	Date	Reading	TOPICS
1.	5 Jan.	${\cal H}$, Ch. 21	Statistical Mechanics vs. Thermodynamics
		${\cal H}$	"Count the ways" - defining ENTROPY
		${\cal H}$	"What's Hot?" - defining TEMPERATURE
2.	10 Jan.	${\cal H}$	Boltzmann - occupation probabilities
		${\cal H}$, Ch. 22	Ideal Gases - equipartition & pressure
		${\cal H}$, Ch. 22	Particle in a Box - Maxwellian velocity distibutions
3.	17 Jan.	${\cal H}$, Ch. 25	"Charge! " - Coulomb's Law
		${\cal H}$, Ch. 26	Action at a Distance - why invent a "field"?
4.	24 Jan.	${\cal H}$, Ch. 27	Symmetric Conservation - Gauss' law for $\vec{g}$ & $\vec{E}$
5.	31 Jan.	First Midterm Examination
		Ch. 28	Potential vs. Capacity
		Ch. 29,30	"C & thee" - capacitance explored
6.	7 Feb.	Ch. 31	"R & I" - resistance vs. current; Kirchhoff's rules
			"RC" - time constant in DC circuits
		Ch. 31	Transport Theory
	14 Feb.	Spring Reading Break
7.	21 Feb.	Ch. 32	"I cross B" - the Lorentz force and why we invent $\vec{B}$
		Ch. 33	"Do $\vec{B}$, do $\vec{B}$, do! " - moving charges make $\vec{B}$ (Biot & Savart)
			"Link the loop with symmetry" - using Ampère's law
8.	28 Feb.	Ch. 34,36	"Don't change that flux!" - inductance, Faraday & Lenz
			"Inductive logic" - defining, calculating and using L
9.	7 Mar.		TRIUMF tour
		Second Midterm Examination
10.	14 Mar.	Ch. 37	LCR circuits & Alternating Current
		Ch. 38	Maxwell's "Displacement Current"
11.	21 Mar.	Ch. 38,39	Maxwell's equations: "Let there be light!"
		${\cal H}$, Ch. 41	Thin film interference
12.	28 Mar.	${\cal H}$, Ch. 41	N slit interference
		Ch. 42,43	Diffraction
13.	4 Apr.	${\cal H}$	Concept Maps
			Review
	mid-Apr.	Final Examination