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Week Fourteen - Temperature Scales

  • Posted by fisher
  • December 26, 2006

Temperature scales from absolute zero, through Bose-Einstein condensates to the Big Bang. Music: “O Tannenbaum”, “Linus and Lucy” and “Christmas Time is Here” by Vince Guaraldi.

 
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Week Thirteen and a half - Statistical Mechanics

  • Posted by fisher
  • December 23, 2006

Statisitcal mechanics: closed system, counting states, definition of entropy, Boltzman factor, free energy, Giibs factor. Example systems: zipper, ideal gas, black body raditiation, spin system. Music: “Queen Bitch” by David Bowie, “Bomb the Twist” and “Woo Hoo” by the 5, 6, 7, 8s.

 
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Week Thirteen - Hurry Up!

  • Posted by fisher
  • December 18, 2006

I’m sick, so this is the first of two podcasts this week. We go into the Hurry Up, two minute warning, now or never phase for the last third of the time beofre General I. Ten minutes on getting started so we’re all there on Jan. 28. Music: “There is a war”, Leonard Cohen.”Statistical Mechanics” will be posted on Thursday.

 
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Week Twelve - Optics

  • Posted by fisher
  • December 10, 2006

This week: optics. Electromagnetic waves, wave tracing and geometric optics, lenses, f-stop, Fresnel and Frauenhofer differaction, interferometers. Music: “Edward Appleby (In memorium)” by Mark Mothersbaugh, “tcp d2 nnn english irdial” from the Conet Project, Bach, “Cello Suite #1 in G, 2. Allemande”

 
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Week Eleven - Thermodynamics

  • Posted by fisher
  • December 4, 2006

“Increasing, decreasing,Decreasing, Increasing,Who the hell caresWhat entropy does?”Classical thermodynamics, the mystery of what heat is, thermodynamic potentials, the four laws, Carnot cycle, ideal gases and polyatrops. Music: “In the Midnight” by Van Morrison and “Loquasto International Film Festival” by Mark Mothersbaugh.

 
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