THERMODYNAMICS — 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

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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.

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

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