Thermodynamics Made Easy – Module 1.3 (English)

Pervez Hoodbhoy

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 1.3

  • Adding heat to a system

  • Various heat capacities of a substance

  • Enthalpy and its uses

  • Moles: a quick reminder from chemistry

  • Measuring heat capacities

  • Heat capacities of a non-ideal gas

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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