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Thermal and Statistical Physics
Physics 416
Thermal and Statistical Physics
Purdue University

Textbook: Thermal Physics by Kittel and Kroemer

Lectures follow the text fairly c

Lecture 14: Engines

Storytime with Thursday Next (Jasper Fforde),...

: 20-Aug-2006

Midterm Review

We're having a midterm exam Wednesday, and to...

: 20-Aug-2006

Lecture 15: Refrigerators and Path Depen

How refrigerators work. Why you can't cool y...

: 20-Aug-2006

Lecture 16: Gibbs Free Energy and Chemic

We define the Gibbs Free Energy, which is the...

: 20-Aug-2006

Lecture 17: Introduction to Phase Transi

We finish discussing chemical reactions, incl...

: 20-Aug-2006

Lecture 18: Van Der Waals and Geckos

We derive the shape of the phase boundary for...

: 21-Aug-2007

Lecture 19: Symmetries, Order Parameter...

We finish the van der Waals equation of state...

: 21-Aug-2007

Lecture 20: Landau Theory of Phase Tran...

Now that we know what order parameters are (s...

: 21-Aug-2007

Lecture 21: Alloys, Mixing, and Phase S

Oil and water -- they don't mix. Or do they?...

: 21-Aug-2007

Lecture 22: Nucleation in First Order (A

Supercooling Demonstration (thanks to special...

: 21-Aug-2007

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