Modern engineering research focuses on designing new materials and processes at the molecular level. Statistical thermodynamics provides the formalism for understanding how molecular interactions lead to the observed collective behavior at the macroscale.
Statistical Thermodynamics: Molecules to Machines
Statistical Thermodynamics: Molecules to Machines
Instructor: Venkat Viswanathan
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This course is advanced level stuff.You got to have high understanding of probability distributions and also a lot of integral calculus is required.
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