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B.Sc. II Videos


Semester III

PHYSICS Paper-V  

Paper V  DSC- C1  THERMAL PHYSICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS-I

Unit I: Kinetic Theory of Gases and thermometry

Mean free pathderivation of Maxwell’s law of distribution of velocities and its experimental verification Transport Phenomena: transport of momentum (viscosity)transport of thermal energy (conduction)Transport of mass (diffusion)Law of equipartition of energy (qualitative) and its applications to specific heat of monoatomic and diatomic gasesPrinciple of thermometrytypes of thermometersScales of temperature (Celsius, Kelvin, Fahrenheit and Rankine)Mercury thermometerThermoelectric thermometerPlatinum resistance thermometerThermister




Paper VI  DSC- C2 WAVES AND OPTICS -I

Semester IV

Paper VII
           DSC- D1  THERMAL PHYSICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS-II

Unit I: Chapter 1) Thermodynamic Potentials

EnthalpyGibbsHelmholtzInternal Energy functionsMaxwell’s thermodynamical relationsJoule-Thomson effectClausius- Clapeyron equationExpression for (CP – CV)Expression for CP/CVTdS equations



Unit IChapter 2 Theory of Radiation

Blackbody radiation and its importanceExperimental study of black body radiation spectrumConcept of energy densityDerivation of Planck's lawDeduction of Wien’s distribution lawRayleigh-Jeans LawStefan Boltzmann Law and Wien’s displacement law from Planck’s law

Unit I - Thermal Physics 

Chapter I : Thermodynamic Potentials

         Very nice method to remember Equations of Thermodynamic Potentials and Maxwell Relations. Watch this video by Prof. Dipankar N. Basu, IIT Guwahati.



Unit II: Statistical Mechanics
1) Classical statistics 

Phase space 


Microstate and Macrostate 


Accessible microstates priory probability
thermodynamic probability
probability distribution
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law
evaluation of constants α and β
Entropy and Thermodynamic probability
Distribution of molecular speeds

Unit II Stap;-=ostistical Mechanics

Chapter 2 Quantum statistics

Bose-Einstein distribution law

photon gas

Fermi-Dirac distribution law

electron gas

comparison of M.B., B.E., and F.D. statistics.

Paper VIII  DSC- D2 WAVES AND OPTICS -II