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.
Link to the slides used in this lecture:
1. drive.google.com/file/d/0B8hDfVvVdCImbWhGRHNvTWFfWVk/view?usp=sharing
2. drive.google.com/file/d/0B8hDfVvVdCImbEdLc0ZqYTc2Q3M/view?usp=sharing
This lecture includes:
- examples of microstates in two simple systems (0:01)
- assumptions about scattering between microstates (7:24)
- the Fundamental Postulate of Statistical Mechanics (12:04)
- a simple example (14:14)
- a slightly more complicated example (26:40)
Course Index
- Introduction to Thermal and Statistical Physics
- Measuring Temperature
- Absolute Zero, Heat Capacity
- Phase Transitions
- Heat and Work
- Heat Cycles
- More Heat Cycles
- The Ideal Gas
- Avagadro's Number and Equipartition Theorem
- Entropy
- Entropy and the Second Law
- Efficiency of Carnot Engine
- Heat Transfer Mechanisms
- Drinking Bird
- Introduction to Probability
- Joint Probabilities
- The Normal Distribution
- Central Limit Theorem
- Combinatorics
- Quantum States
- The Fundamental Postulate
- The Thermodynamic Limit
- Two Systems at Equilibrium
- Statistical Definition of Temperature
- Ideal Paramagnet I
- Ideal Paramagnet II
- The Canonical Ensemble
- The Canonical Ensemble II
- Helmholtz Free Energy
- Non-interacting Distinguishable Particles
- Ideal Gas: Indistinguishability
- Ideal Gas: Density of States
- Ideal Gas: Partition Function
- Ideal Gas: Summary
- Combining Excitation Modes
- Rotational Modes of Diatomic Molecules
- Vibrational Modes of Diatomic Molecules
- Heat Capacity of a Diatomic Gas
- Quantum effects on the rotat
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.