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What is Temperature?. Instructor: Jeff Grossman. This video motivates the statistical mechanics approach through material structure and behavior. Entropy is introduced as a natural variable whose derivative with respect to energy is zero when the number of microstates is maximized. This derivative is identified as being the reciprocal of temperature, and Boltzmann's constant is explained. (from ocw.mit.edu)
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