Hello PHY 115’ers of 2021!

Hi everyone! Welcome to PHY 115 (which I like to call “Mostly Many-Body Physics”). I highly recommend taking a look at the syllabus (link on the sidebar) and the lecture schedule (link also on the sidebar). There’s a little information on the course welcome page. The link is in the upper-right corner of the page (if you’re on a desktop or laptop). (Note: for folks looking at this on their phones, the sidebar is down below—you have to scroll down the page.)

I will add more information our class TA and the recitation section when that becomes available. I’ll send out a message once the updates are ready.

I’m looking forward to getting started and seeing you all!

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Topic 6 – Thermodynamics – Recordings and Notes

12/02 – Ideal Gas and Statistics – Video / Notes

12/04 – Entropy and Volume – Video / Notes

12/07 – Entropy and Energy – Video / Notes

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Entropy and the Arrow of Time

This is a great little video about the seeming paradox of time reversible laws of physics and the obvious asymmetry of our observations:

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