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Heat & Thermodynamics

Key Lectures

Tutorial

Supplementary Videos

Supplementary Articles

Key Lectures

Prof. V Balakrishnan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

What is Thermodynamics

The Classical ideal Gas

The Laws of Thermodynamics

Specific Heat of an Ideal Gas

Van der Waals Equations

Phase Transitions

Prof. Walter Lewins, MIT. Classical Mechanics Lecture series has lectures on Thermodynamics. The lectures involve classroom experiments also [Playlist]

Thermodynamics by Khan Academy

Tutorials

Dr.Michel van Biezen discusses several problems in Thermodynamics. Select the video topic-wise his webpage LECTURE ONLINE.  

Interactive Tools

  1. PhET simulations Physics

  2. Energy2D  is a free interactive multiphysics simulation software that models all three modes of heat transfer—conduction, convection, and radiation, and their coupling with particle dynamics. If you use Energy2D for your project work and present/publish the results, you should cite this article: Charles Xie, Interactive Heat Transfer Simulations for Everyone, The Physics Teacher, Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 237-240, 2012.

Supplementary Videos

  1. Second Law of Thermodynamics 

  2. Heat Engines And Second Law Of Thermodynamics

  3. What is entropy? 

  4. Kinetic Molecular Theory and the Ideal Gas Laws 

  5. Gas Laws – A-level Physics

  6. Using Gibbs free energy 

  7. Heat Diffusion with Chocolate Lava Cakes 

  8. Solving the heat equation | DE3  

Supplementary Science Education Articles

  1. The Nature of Time, Resonance 25, 1083, 2020 (This article by Jayant V. Narlikar is about the unidirectionality of time)
  2. Snippets of Physics – Why are Black Holes Hot? Resonance 13, 412, 2008 (This article is by T. Padmanabhan explaining many physics about Black Holes)
  3. Maxwell’s Demon and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Resonance 15, 548, 2010 
  4. Ludwig Boltzmann and Entropy, Resonance 9, 2001 
  5. Rubber as an Aid to Teach Thermodynamics, Resonance 24, 2019 
  6. Molecule Matters – van der Waals Molecules – History and Some Perspectives on Intermolecular Forces,  Resonance 24, 2009 
  7. Dawn of Science – The Quest for Power, Resonance 17, 436, 2012  (This article gives a historical perspective of the invention of engine and power.)
  8. A Paradox in Radiation Heat Transfer, Resonance 12, 85, 2007  
  9. External and Internal Irreversibility: Heat Engine as an Example, Resonance 23, 535, 2018  (The article attempts to clarify the meaning of internal and external irreversibility using the example of a heat engine.) 

  10. Thermal Imaging of the Thomson Effect, Physics 13, 137, 2020 

  11. The Quest to Make a Ferromagnet with Cold Atoms, Physics 11, 131, 2018

  12. Black-Body Radiation, Resonance 13, 115, 2008