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
