Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics (Spring 2009)
Stanford Univ. - Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics (Spring 2009). This course consists of 10 video lectures given by Professor Leonard Susskind. The topics covered in this course focus on statistical mechanics. Leonard Susskind discusses the study of statistical analysis as calculating the probability of things subject to the constraints of a conserved quantity. And he introduces energy, entropy, temperature, and phase states as they relate directly to statistical mechanics.
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.
Lecture 9 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Leonard Susskind picks up on magnets, phase transitions, and mean field transitions. He goes on to explain chemical potential.
Lecture 10 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Leonard Susskind deals with such topics as inflation, adiabatic transformation and thermal dynamic systems.
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