Author Archives: dkagan

Hello PHY 115’ers of 2021!

Posted on August 31, 2021 by dkagan

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 … Continue reading →

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Topic 6 – Thermodynamics – Recordings and Notes

Posted on December 2, 2020 by dkagan

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

Posted on November 21, 2020 by dkagan

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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