Lectures in course PHYS-105: Advanced physics II (thermodynamics)

Covers the '2 boxes, one wall' model, phase transition, and calorimetry.

Explores continuity equations and internal entropy production in various coordinate systems, emphasizing scalar functions and vector quantities.

Discusses thermal transfer, efficiency in cycles, Carnot cycle, heat pumps, Stirling engine, and ideal gases.

Covers the fundamental concepts of spin dynamics and spintronics, emphasizing coherent spin dynamics in a quantum-mechanical framework.

Explores deformation and strain tensors, Lagrange representation, elasticity theory, and the divergence theorem.

Explores calorimetric coefficients for characterizing system responses from simple to complex states.

Provides an overview of thermodynamic principles, focusing on the first principle and its applications in various systems.

Explores internal energy, mechanics, and state variables in isolated systems with practical examples involving a gas piston, air, and a fan.

Explores internal energy in mechanics and thermodynamics, focusing on symmetric deformation and intensive quantities.

Explores statistical physics concepts in isolated systems, focusing on entropy and disorder.

Covers the first principle of thermodynamics, energy conservation, system isolation, and external processes affecting system energy.

Covers statistical physics, isolated systems, entropy, and the Boltzmann distribution.

Covers partial and total derivatives, differentials, and temporal derivatives in functions with multiple variables.

Covers the second principle of thermodynamics, focusing on entropy and reversible processes in thermodynamic systems.

Covers thermodynamics principles, system states, equations of motion, and internal energy concepts.

Covers the characterization of thermodynamic systems, including types of systems, walls, state variables, and functions of state.

Explores thermodynamics, state variables, entropy, and experimental demonstrations of the second law.

Discusses thermodynamic functions, their mathematical tools, and key relationships between state variables in thermodynamics.

Explores ideal gas laws, entropy, internal energy, and specific heat capacities, emphasizing Mayer's relations and adiabatic reversible processes.

Covers state variables, functions, thermodynamic systems, processes, and extensive and intensive quantities.