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 2.5
- Black body basics (Planck, Stefan-Boltzmann, Wien)
- How hot is that star?
- Sun as a black body radiator
- Basics of the photon gas
- Thermodynamics of the expanding universe
Recommended textbooks and materials:
- Feynman Lectures in Physics – chapters 44, 45, 46
- Principles of Thermodynamics, Jean-Philippe Ansermet and Sylvain D. Brechet
- Essential Classical Thermodynamics, Ulf W. Gedde
- Problems and Solutions on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, World Scientific
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