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277 years, 9 months
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Instructor: Professor Leonard Susskind. Statistical mechanics is a branch of physics that applies probability theory to the study of the thermodynamic behavior of systems composed of a large number of particles. Statistical mechanics provides a framework for relating the microscopic properties of individual atoms and molecules to the macroscopic bulk properties of materials that can be observed in everyday life. Thus it explains thermodynamics as a result of the classical and quantum-mechanical descriptions of statistics and mechanics at the microscopic level. (from theoreticalminimum.com)
Course Currilcum
- Lecture 01 – Conservation of information, energy, entropy, and temperature Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – The mathematics of statistical mechanics Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – The Boltzmann distribution and fluctuations Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – Helmholtz free energy and the partition function Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – Diatomic molecules and black hole thermodynamics Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – Second law of thermodynamics Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – Harmonic oscillators and quantum states Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – Magnets Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – Phase transitions and chemical potential Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Thermal radiation and inflation Unlimited
