Thermodynamics Made Easy – Module 1.4 (English)

THERMODYNAMICS

Video lectures by Pervez Hoodbhoy in English and Urdu

These lectures are suitable for undergraduate level teaching (years 16-20) and provide the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics. Although several examples are worked out here, for a fuller grasp of the subject students should work out at least some problems in the texts recommended below.

Module 1.4

• Reversible and irreversible processes
• Isothermal expansion of a gas
• Adiabatic expansion of a gas
• Free expansion of a gas
• Application: speed of sound

Recommended textbooks and materials:

1. Feynman Lectures in Physics – chapters 44, 45, 46
2. Principles of Thermodynamics, Jean-Philippe Ansermet and Sylvain D. Brechet
3. Essential Classical Thermodynamics, Ulf W. Gedde
4. Problems and Solutions on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, World Scientific

Watch it in Urdu here.