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Course | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
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Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
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March 30, 2009 - Leonard Susskind discusses the study of statistical analysis as calculating the probability of things subject to the constraints of a conserved quantity. Susskind introduces energy, entropy, temperature, and phase states as they relate directly to statistical mechanics.
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Lecture 2 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
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April 6, 2009 - Leonard Susskind overviews elementary mathematics to define a method for understanding statistical mechanics.
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Lecture 3 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
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April 13, 2009 - Leonard Susskind reviews the Lagrange multiplier, explains Boltzmann distribution and Helm-Holtz free energy before oulining into the theory of fluctuations.
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Lecture 4 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
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April 20, 2009 - Leonard Susskind explains how to calculate and define pressure, explores the formulas some of applications of Helm-Holtz free energy, and discusses the importance of the partition function.
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Lecture 5 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
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April 27, 2009 - 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.
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Lecture 6 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
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May 4, 2009 - Leonard Susskind explains the second law of thermodynamics, illustrates chaos, and discusses how the volume of phase space grows.
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Lecture 7 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
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May 11, 2009 - Leonard Susskind lectures on harmonic oscillators, quantum states, boxes of radiation and all associated computations such as wavelengths, volume, energy and temperature.
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Lecture 8 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
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May 19, 2009 - 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.
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Lecture 9 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
by StanfordUniversity 17,728 views
May 25, 2009 - Leonard Susskind picks up on magnets, phase transitions, and mean field transitions. He goes on to explain chemical potential.
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Lecture 10 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
by StanfordUniversity 19,675 views
June 1, 2009 - Leonard Susskind presents the final lecture of Statistical Mechanics 10. In this lecture, he cover such topics as inflation, adiabatic transformation and thermal dynamic systems.
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