Physics 416 Thermal and Statistical Physics Purdue University Textbook: Thermal Physics by Kittel and Kroemer Lectures follow the text fairly closely, so if you're joining us from iTunes, you might enjoy having a copy handy.
Final Review 2
Aug. 21, 2007
Final Review 1
Lecture 24: Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
Lecture23: Brownian Motion and Diffusion
Lecture 22: Nucleation in First Order (Abrupt) Phase Transitions
Lecture 21: Alloys, Mixing, and Phase Separation
Lecture 20: Landau Theory of Phase Transitions; Oil, Water, and Alloys
Lecture 19: Symmetries, Order Parameters, and the Failure of Reductionism
Lecture 18: Van Der Waals and Geckos
Lecture 17: Introduction to Phase Transitions
Aug. 20, 2006
Lecture 16: Gibbs Free Energy and Chemical Reactions
Lecture 15: Refrigerators and Path Dependence of Work
Midterm Review
Lecture 14: Engines
Lecture 13: Bose Condensates
Lecture 12: Reversible and Irreversible Expansions
Lecture 11: Bose Gas and Ideal Gas
Lecture 10: Fermi-Dirac Distribution Function
Lecture 9: Gibbs Factor and Gibbs Sum
Lecture 8: Chemical Potential
Lecture 7: Planck Blackbody Radiation
Lecture 6: Ideal Gas Law, Planck Blackbody Radiation
Sept. 9, 2007
Lecture 5: Free Energy and Maxwell Relations
Lecture 4: Partition Function and Thermodynamic Identity
Lecture 3: Entropy, Temperature, and the Laws of Thermodynamics
Lecture 2: Multiplicity Function
Lecture 1: What is Statistical Mechanics and Why Does It Work?
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