Thermodynamics Lecture Notes
Professor Donald B. Melrose
Director, RCfTA
and Head of Theoretical Physics, School of Physics, University of Sydney

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Introduction to Thermodynamics 2002(PDF format)

Introduction to Statistical Mechanics 2001 (PDF format)

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Lecture 1: Laws of Thermodynamics
Lecture 2: Maxwell Distribution: Ideal Gases
Lecture 3: State Functions
Lecture 4: Open Systems
Lecture 5: Chemical Reactions
Lecture 6: Phase Transitions
Lecture 7: Thermodynamics of Electric, Magnetic and Other Systems
Lecture 8: Thermodynamics in Astrophysics and Cosmology
Lecture 9: Classical Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 10: Classical Ideal Gases
Lecture 11: Ideal Bose and Fermi Gases
Lecture 12: Degenerate Ideal Fermi Gases
Lecture 13: Degenerate Bose Gases
Lecture 14: Black Body Radiation
Lecture 15: The Debye Theory for Solids
Lecture 16: Ionization Equilibrium
Lecture 17: Order-Disorder Transitions
Lecture 18: Superfluidity
Lecture 19: Imperfect Gases
Assignment 3
Assignment 4

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