20.08 Overview on thermodynamics and statistical physics

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22.08 Temperature, Heat, Work : First principle of thermodynamics (application to gas expansion)

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27.08 Irreversibility, models, ideal gas, equipartition

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29.08 Macrostates and Microstates: applications to two-spin systems, random walk and Einstein crystal

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03.09 Large multiplicity limit

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05.09 Multiplicity of ideal gas

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10.09 Entropy and the 2nd law of thermodynamics

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12.09 Stretching polymers and proteins, bottle rockets and open eyes under water

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17.09 Thermodynamic equilibrium and free energies

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19.09 Thermodynamic potentials and Legendre transform 

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24.09 Phase transitions 

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26.09 Phase transitions and van der Waals model

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01.10 Van der Waals model (continuation). Heat engines and refrigerators

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03.10 Boltzmann statistics, partition function 

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29.10 Partition function and the Helmholtz free energy  

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31.10 Maxwell Boltzmann distribution and the ideal gas  

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05.11 Chemical potential 

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07.11 Gibbs factor

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12.11 Fermi-Dirac distribution; Degenerate gases and white dwarfs

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14.11 Bose-Einstein distribution; Black body radiation 

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19.11 Bose-Einstein distribution; Debye model of crystals. Thermal vibrations and heat capacity of solids 

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21.11 Summary of the statistical mechanics of ideal gases 

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26.11 Exam 2017

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