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
April 27, 2009
Leonard Susskind discusses the basic physics of the diatomic molecule and why you don't have to worry about its structure at low temperature. Susskind later explores a black hole thermodynamics.