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Lecture 19: Symmetries, Order Parameters, and the Failure of Reductionism artwork
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Lecture 19: Symmetries, Order Parameters, and the Failure of Reductionism

Thermal and Statistical Physics by Prof. Carlson

Nov 8, 2005Education

We finish the van der Waals equation of state, and use it to illustrate the liquid-gas phase transition. It turns out that at low pressure, the van der Waals equation of state has a wiggle where (dp/pV)>0. Since this wou...

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