Lesson 42



Name:ETP Section:t3 Start Time:13:27:16 Instructor:pattersonet Course:421




1. There may be few topics about which you are concerned. Or topics that you find more troublesome, harder to understand, etc. What is still giving you trouble?

What things would you like to go over during our review in Lesson 42?

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2. Here we are... at Lesson 42. We've seen a lot of "Thermal and Statistical Physics" and none of us has gone the way of the most famous statistical mechanics, thankfully!

Think back over the semester. If you were telling a physics major friend what you've done and what you've learned this semester in this course, what would you say? That is, what do you think the "big picture" wrap-up of the semester includes?

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3. From the choices below, which do you think is the most important idea/concept/quantity when it comes to Thermal and Statistical Physics?

Check the correct answer:
a) partition function.
b) Boltzmann factor.
c) Free Energy.
d) Thermodynamic square.

Below is a space for your thoughts, including general comments about today's assignment (what seemed impossible, what reading didn't make sense, what we should spend class time on, what was "cool", etc.):


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