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Cosmological Constraints on Neutrino Masses

Explores Boltzmann H-theorem, entropy conservation, neutrino freezing, nucleosynthesis, and cosmological constraints.

Covers Monte Carlo simulations, ensemble properties, and numerical integration techniques.

Response Theory: Trajectory-Based Approach

Explores response theory using a trajectory-based approach in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, emphasizing dynamical activity and entropy flux.

Kinetic Theory: Velocity Distribution

Explores the kinetic theory of gases, ideal gas law, velocity distribution, Boltzmann postulate, and Maxwell-Boltzmann speed distribution.

Pair Correlation Function and Macroscopic Properties

Explores the link between pair correlation function and physical observables, providing insights into particle interactions in liquids.

Doppler Broadening: Fundamentals and Applications

Covers the Doppler line broadening, resonator cavities, lasing threshold conditions, and stimulated emission.

Nonequilibrium Free Energy Equality

Covers the nonequilibrium equality for free energy differences proposed by Crooks and Jarzynski in 1997.

Kinetic Theory of Gases: Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution

Explores the Kinetic Theory of Gases and the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution.

Kinetic Theory: Distribution Function Evolution

Explores the evolution of the distribution function describing particles in phase space.

Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution: Kinetic Energies

Covers the derivation of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of kinetic energies from the distribution of velocity magnitudes.

Evaporation Physics: Kinetic Theory of Gases

Covers the kinetic theory of gases and its application in evaporation physics, including Fick's Law of Diffusion and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.

Statistical Thermodynamics

Explores the derivation of internal energy from the partition function and the concept of entropy in statistical thermodynamics.

Conservative Forces and Energy Theorem

Explores conservative forces, potential energy, and energy conservation in classical mechanics through practical examples.

Statistical Thermodynamics: Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution

Covers the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution and entropy in composite systems.

Data Compression and Shannon's Theorem: Entropy Calculation Example

Demonstrates the calculation of entropy for a specific example, resulting in an entropy value of 2.69.

Semiconductor Physics: Occupancy Statistics and Band Filling

Explores occupancy statistics and band filling in semiconductors, covering intrinsic and doped cases.

Sampling the Canonical Ensemble

Explores sampling the canonical ensemble, temperature fluctuations, extended Lagrangian, and Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution in molecular dynamics simulations.

Entropy: Microscopic View

Explores the microscopic view of entropy, discussing equilibrium, statistical entropy, irreversibility, and the second law of thermodynamics.

Thermodynamic Transformations: Internal Energy and Kinetic Gas Theory

Explores thermodynamic transformations, internal energy, kinetic gas theory, and temperature measurement methods.

Kinetic Energy and Work

Explores kinetic energy, work, and the relationship between them in physics.