Lecture

Thermodynamic Principles: Equilibrium, Constraints, and Potentials

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Description

This lecture covers the concepts of internal constraints and equilibrium in classical thermodynamics, introducing a variational principle for energy and discussing the convergence to thermal equilibrium. It also explores Legendre transforms, thermodynamic potentials, and Maxwell relations.

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Thermodynamics: Statistical mechanics

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