Lecture Playlist
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Conservation of information, energy, entropy, and temperature
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The mathematics of statistical mechanics
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The Boltzman distribution and fluctuations
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Helmholtz free energy and the partition function
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Diatomic molecules and black hole thermodynamics
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Second law of thermodynamics
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Harmonic oscillators and quantum states
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Magnets
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Phase transitions and chemical potential
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Thermal radiation and inflation
May 4, 2009
Leonard Susskind explains the second law of thermodynamics, illustrates chaos, and discusses how the volume of phase space grows.