27. The Canonical Ensemble  -- Course in Thermal and Statistical Physics
Channel: Mark Ancliff
Date: 2014-08-18

This is a video of part of a lecture course in thermal and statistical physics I taught at the Catholic University of Korea in 2013.

This lecture includes:
 - motivation for the canonical ensemble (0:00)
 - statistical mechanics of a system connected to a thermal reservoir (5:30)
 - definition of the canonical partition function (16:36)
 - definition of the Boltzmann factor (19:15)
 - properties of the canonical partition function (23:42)