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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:
- Review of previous lecture (0:00)
- Introduction to density of states approximation (5:34)
- Definition of density of states (15:55)
- Calculation of density of states for the ideal gas (19:12)
- Checking when the density of states approximation is valid (31:15)
- Summary (37:55)
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.
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