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2022-08-03: What Happens Inside a Proton?

  • 12:15: ... now simulate how this lattice evolves over time using the laws of statistical mechanics. ...

2020-03-16: How Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World?

  • 17:40: ... - corresponding to more probable measurement results. It's analogous to statistical mechanics, in which many different arrangements of air in the room lead to the same ...

2020-01-20: Solving the Three Body Problem

  • 10:30: ... arrangements of position and velocity. Well, for a pseudo-random system, statistical mechanics lets us calculate the probability of the system being in any part of ...

2018-08-01: How Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?

  • 10:27: ... James Clerk Maxwell-- one of the founding fathers of electrodynamics and statistical mechanics-- because demons don't ...

2018-07-25: Reversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon

  • 04:59: As well as unifying the equations of electromagnetism, James Clerk Maxwell was one of the founders of statistical mechanics.

2018-07-18: The Misunderstood Nature of Entropy

  • 03:46: ... a revolution to understand the reality of entropy, that revolution was statistical mechanics, founded by the great Ludwig Boltzmann with his kinetic theory of ...
  • 07:38: Statistical mechanics tells us why large-scale systems have the properties they do, but what does this have to do with entropy?
  • 09:41: ... Statistical mechanics inevitably leads to entropy and the second law, and it does so by ...
  • 10:45: ... that is you, until I see you next week on "Space Time." The field of statistical mechanics has given us some of the most profound insights into the working of both ...
  • 03:46: ... a revolution to understand the reality of entropy, that revolution was statistical mechanics, founded by the great Ludwig Boltzmann with his kinetic theory of ...
  • 09:41: ... Statistical mechanics inevitably leads to entropy and the second law, and it does so by something so ...
  • 07:38: Statistical mechanics tells us why large-scale systems have the properties they do, but what does this have to do with entropy?

2018-02-14: What is Energy?

  • 08:25: ... on each other, giving us the virial theorem, or a roomful of air in statistical mechanics. ...
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