{"id":1348,"date":"2017-05-15T23:28:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T06:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2017-05-15T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T06:34:15","slug":"thermodynamics-and-statistical-mechanics-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/thermodynamics-and-statistical-mechanics-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, 2017-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several students have requested the opportunity to study thermodynamics &amp; statistical mechanics at the upper-division level next year. Several options exist.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.edu\/catalog\/offering\/atoms-molecules-and-reactions-thermodynamics-16420\">Thermodynamics<\/a><\/strong> course available as partial credit option in Atoms, Molecules, and Reactions (AMR). This is currently planned as 8 credits: 4 in winter and 4 in spring. This will be a solid course in thermodynamics from a chemistry perspective, with minor coverage of statistical mechanics.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve discussed with several interested students the possibility of a group contract in Thermodynamics &amp; Statistical Mechanics (an identical Individual Learning Contract that each student in the group would submit), which would likely be 6 &#8211; 8 credits, spread out over fall and winter (3 &#8211; 4 in fall, and 3 &#8211; 4 in winter). The contract would cover Chapters 1 &#8211; 7 in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/physics.weber.edu\/thermal\/\">Introduction to Thermal Physics<\/a><\/strong>, by Schroeder.<\/li>\n<li>A new possibility that Dharshi and I have been recently discussing (but no commitments have been made) is for me to teach Thermodynamics &amp; Statistical Mechanics within AMR. This would be the same coverage as the contract, but would be taught as a course instead of as an independent study and would in be in winter\/spring instead of fall\/winter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I invite your responses to these possibilities: your ranked list of personal preferences; pros &amp; cons of the options; your creative ideas. Please email me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several students have requested the opportunity to study thermodynamics &amp; statistical mechanics at the upper-division level next year. Several options exist. There is a Thermodynamics course available as partial credit option in Atoms, Molecules, and Reactions (AMR). This is currently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/thermodynamics-and-statistical-mechanics-2017-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/psam1617\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}