• Pulptastic@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    My favorite class in grad school. Here, let’s derive the empirical laws of thermodynamics from first principles based on random movement of atoms.

    • Troy@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      It was third year physics for me, and the professor opened with what was the paraphrased version of the above quote. One of the hardest classes we ever took. Very cool to see statistics used in a proof like that.