Learn Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics at your own pace

• General Information
  • What will you learn in this course?
  • Textbook Information
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  • About the Instructor
• Lecture 1: General Introduction
  • Summary
  • Learning Material
  • Key Definitions
  • Test your knowledge
  • Homework Assignment
• Lecture 2: Temperature and the Boltzmann factor
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• Lecture 3: Kinetic theory of gas, including Maxwell-Boltzmann
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• Lecture 4: First Law of Thermodynamics
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• Lecture 5: Second Law of Thermodynamics
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• Lecture 6: Entropy
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• Lecture 7: Information and Entropy
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• Lecture 8: Thermodynamic potentials
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• Lecture 9: Rods, bubbles, and magnets
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• Lecture 10: Third Law of Thermodynamics
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• Lecture 11: Equipartition of energy
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• Lecture 12: The partition function
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• Lecture 13: Statistical mechanics of an ideal gas
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• Lecture 14: Chemical Potential
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• Lecture 15: Photons
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• Lecture 16: Phonons
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• Lecture 17: Ultra-relativistic gas
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• Lecture 18: Real gas
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• Lecture 19: Cooling real gas
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• Lecture 20: Phase transition
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• Lecture 21: Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Distributions
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• Lecture 22: Quantum gases and condensates
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• Complement 1: Exact Differential
  • Summary
  • Partial differential
  • Exact differential
• Complement 2: Combinatorics and Probability Distribution
  • Combinations
  • Discrete Probability
  • Continuous Probability
  • Independent Variables
  • Binomial Distribution
• Complement 3: Integral Appendix
  • The Gaussian
  • The factorial integral and the Gamma Function
  • Riemann Zeta Function
  • The Polylogarithm
  • The Dirac Delta function
  • Fourier transforms
  • Conclusion
• Answers to selected test your knowledge questions

• Index