Rates of change
Week 1:
- Intro to statistical mechanics
- Laws of thermodynamics
- Coarse-graining
Week 2: - Ideal Gas Law
- Ideal gas law derivation
- Statistical fluctuations
Week 3: - Microstates and Macrostates
- Phase space
Week 4: - Lagrangian mechanics
- Hamiltonian mechanics
- Liouville theorem
- Principle of Least Action
Week 5: - Information and entropy
Week 6: - Entropy, energy, and temperature
Week 7: - Ergodicity
- Temperature and the Canonical Ensemble
Week 8: - Entropy and Pressure
- Gibbs Paradox
- Partition Function and Ideal Gas
- Ideal Gas Partition Function
- Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution
- Equipartition and Diatomic Gases
Week 9: - Work and heat
- Heat and entropy
- Carnot engine
- Euler equation and Gibbs-Duhem
- Free energy
- Enthalpy
- Euler equation derivation
- Helmholtz work inequality derivation
- Spring-gas equilibrium derivation
Week 10: - 1D Ising Model
- Phase Transitions
- Phase Transitions derivations