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 1.1
Heat, temperature
Zero’th Law of Thermodynamics
Thermometers
Absolute zero
Third Law of Thermodynamics
Can there be a highest temperature?
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
