Complete Physics: Statistical Mechanics

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Monday, 3 September 2012

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: An intermediate level course by Richard Fitzpatrick

Author: Richard Fitzpatrick

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Sunday, 2 September 2012

Thermal and Statistical Physics by Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik

Author: Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik

No of pages:475

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Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics by Hans Kroha

Author: Hans Kroha

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Lecture 1 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind introduces energy, entropy, temperature, and phase states as they relate directly to statistical mechanics.

Lecture 2 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind overviews elementary mathematics to define a method for understanding statistical mechanics.

Lecture 3 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind reviews the Lagrange multiplier, explains Boltzmann distribution and Helmholtz free energy before oulining into the theory of fluctuations.

Lecture 4 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind explains how to calculate and define pressure, explores the formulas some of applications of Helmholtz free energy, and discusses the importance of the partition function.

Lecture 5 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

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.

Lecture 6 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind explains the second law of thermodynamics, illustrates chaos, and discusses how the volume of phase space grows.

Lecture 7 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind lectures on harmonic oscillators, quantum states, boxes of radiation and all associated computations such as wavelengths, volume, energy and temperature.

Lecture 8 Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind lectures on a new class of systems, magnetic systems. He goes on to talk about mean field approximations of molecules in multidimensional lattice systems.