5.60 | Spring 2008 | Undergraduate

Thermodynamics & Kinetics

Lecture Notes

Statistical Mechanics

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Lecture notes with an introduction to statistical mechanics and discussion of probability of system in a state with given energy, partition functions, thermodynamic properties from partition functions, and entropy in terms of probabilities and degeneracies.

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Statistical Mechanics

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