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The Theoretical Minimum VI: Statistical Mechanics
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Statistical mechanics is a branch of physics that applies probability theory to the study of the thermodynamic behavior of systems composed of a large number of particles. Statistical mechanics provides a framework for relating the microscopic properties of individual atoms and molecules to the macroscopic bulk properties of materials that can be observed in everyday life. Thus it explains thermodynamics as a result of the classical and quantum-mechanical descriptions of statistics and mechanics at the microscopic level.
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1 | Entropy and Conservation of Information (1:47:39) | Play Video |
2 | Temperature (0054:13) | Play Video |
3 | Maximizing Entropy (1:53:27) | Play Video |
4 | The Boltzmann Distribution (1:42:35) | Play Video |
5 | Pressure of an Ideal Gas and Fluctuations (1:35:45) | Play Video |
6 | Weakly-interacting Gases, Heat, and Work (2:03:30) | Play Video |
7 | Entropy vs. Reversibility (1:50:27) | Play Video |
8 | Entropy, reversibility, and magnetism (1:28:46) | Play Video |
9 | The Ising model (1:41:08) | Play Video |
10 | Liquid-gas phase transition (2:04:25) | Play Video |
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