Delves into the historical motivations behind the second law of thermodynamics, emphasizing limitations in heat-to-work conversion and the inevitability of irreversible processes.
Explores the historical significance of the 1983 CECAM workshop on the free-energy of solids and its impact on developing free-energy methods for hard-core models.
Explains the first principle of thermodynamics and transformations of ideal gases, including isothermal, isochoric, isobaric, and adiabatic processes with practical examples.
Explores the partition function and Stirling approximation in statistical thermodynamics, emphasizing the importance of recognizing higher order terms.
