Concepts in Thermal Physics

This video series covers the concepts of Thermal Physics.

I’ll do my best to link with other videos of specific textbooks.

• Introduction to Concepts of Thermal Physics
• History of Thermodynamics
  • Before the Classical Greek Philosophers
    • Overview
    • Introduction
    • What the Ancients Believed
    • Cargo Cult
    • From There to Here
    • Church History
  • Classical Greek Philosophers
    • Overview
    • Before the Presocratics
    • Milesians
    • Thales
    • Anaximander
    • Anaximenes
    • Heraclitus
    • Parmenides
    • Anaxagoras
  • Thermometers, Barometers, and Vacuums
    • Introduction
    • Critical Concepts
    • Classical Greeks
    • Galileo and the Thermoscope
    • Vacuums
    • Back to Thermometers
    • Calibrating In Between
    • Absolute Zero
    • Other Temperature Scales
    • Today
  • Ideal Gas Law
    • Volume
    • Pressure
    • Temperature
    • Number of Particles
    • Units
    • The Equation
    • Internal Energy
    • Heat Capacity
    • Statistical Mechanics
  • Timeline
• Before Thermodynamics
  • Episodes:
  • Introduction
  • On Thermometers
  • On Barometers and Vacuums
  • Calorimeters
• Part 2: The Ancient Greek Philosophers
  • Thales
  • Pythagoras
  • Parmenides
  • Heraclitus
  • Empedocles and The Four Elements
  • Empedocles and the Conservation of Mass and Energy
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Aristotle and Aether
    • Aristotle’s Sensible Qualities
  • Galen and the Four Humors
  • Atomism vs. Monism
  • Thermoscopes
• Part 3: The Middle Ages and Rennaissance
  • The Four Elements in Medieval Times
• Part 4: Early Scientific Period
  • Theories of Heat and Cold
    • Fire as an Element
    • Phlogiston
  • Caloric
  • Voids and Vacuums
  • Temperature
  • Relationship Between Pressure and Volume
• Part 5: The Rest is History
• Footnotes
  • A Side Note
  • On Eurocentrism
  • Old Introduction
• Thermodynamics vs. Statistical Mechanics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Which one is better?
• Ideal Gas Law
  • Volume
  • Pressure
  • Temperature
  • Number of Particles
  • Units
  • The Equation
  • Internal Energy
  • Heat Capacity
  • Statistical Mechanics
• Concepts in Thermodynamics
  • Macro vs. Micro
  • Pressure
  • Units of Pressure
  • Measuring Pressure
  • Using Pressure
  • Calculating Pressure
  • Composition of Pressure
  • History of Pressure
  • Number of Particles