The Canonical Ensemble 
The Canonical Ensemble
by CU Korea
Video Lecture 27 of 39
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Date Added: March 8, 2015

Lecture Description

This is a video of part of a lecture course in thermal and statistical physics I taught at the Catholic University of Korea in 2013.

This lecture includes:
- motivation for the canonical ensemble (0:00)
- statistical mechanics of a system connected to a thermal reservoir (5:30)
- definition of the canonical partition function (16:36)
- definition of the Boltzmann factor (19:15)
- properties of the canonical partition function (23:42)

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Course Description

This is a series of undergraduate physics lectures in HD quality on thermal physics and statistical mechanics taught by Prof. Mark Ancliff at the Catholic University of Korea in 2013.

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