All Episodes

Final Review 2

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

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

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?