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 2.2

  • Absolute temperature defined
  • The Clausius inequality – derivation
  • Consequences of the Clausius inequality
  • Why the entropy of the universe has to increase
  • Using entropy as a state variable
  • Solved example I
  • Solved example II

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.


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