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Statistical Mechanics (Spring 2013, Stanford Univ.). Instructor: Professor Leonard Susskind.
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10
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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 – Entropy and Conservation of information Unlimited
- Lecture 02 – Temperature Unlimited
- Lecture 03 – Maximizing entropy Unlimited
- Lecture 04 – The Boltzmann distribution Unlimited
- Lecture 05 – Pressure of an ideal gas and fluctuations Unlimited
- Lecture 06 – Weakly interacting gases, heat, and work Unlimited
- Lecture 07 – Entropy vs. reversibility Unlimited
- Lecture 08 – Entropy, reversibility, and magnetism Unlimited
- Lecture 09 – The Ising model Unlimited
- Lecture 10 – Liquid-gas phase transition Unlimited
