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
June 1, 2009
In this final lecture, Leonard Susskind covers such topics as inflation, adiabatic transformation and thermal radaition.