MIT RES.TLL-004 Concept Vignettes
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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.

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