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 English here.

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Thermodynamics Made Easy – Module 1.4 (English) – The Black Hole · April 12, 2022 at 3:54 pm

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