Weakly interacting gases, heat, and work

Statistical Mechanics (Spring, 2013)

Lecture Playlist

  1. Entropy and conservation of information

  2. Temperature

  3. Maximizing entropy

  4. The Boltzmann distribution

  5. Pressure of an ideal gas and fluctuations

  6. Weakly interacting gases, heat, and work

  7. Entropy vs. reversibility

  8. Entropy, reversibility, and magnetism

  9. Tbe Ising model

  10. Liquid-gas phase transition

May 6, 2013

Professor Susskind derives the equations for the energy and pressure of a gas of weakly interacting particles, and develops the concepts of heat and work which lead to the first law of thermodynamics.

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