Modern Physics, Lecture 10: Foundations II - Heat and Matter
Channel: Stephen Sekula
Date: 2020-02-20

The Composition of Matter; an Ideal Gas as a playground for linking microscopic properties to macroscopic properties; the ideal gas law; pressure from a microscopic perspective, using classical physics; temperature as a measure of average microscopic kinetic energy; radiation from matter; Planck vs. Wien vs. Rayleigh-Jeans model for radiation; another challenge to classical physics.