(Adapted from the Pre-Print Copy of the Book by Gang Chen and personal notes by M. P. Menguc)

WEEK 1

INTRODUCTION
(based on Chapter 1 and additional notes)

Feynman Lecture: There is a plenty of Room at the Bottom
What happened since Feynman?

WEEK 2
Information, Probability, Entropy
Definitions of Energy, Heat Transfer, Temperature
Macroscopic Heat Transfer Modalities

WEEK 3
Conduction, Convection, Radiation
Microscopic Heat Transfer Concepts
Energy Carriers
Allowable Energy Levels of Carriers
Statistical Distributions
Kinetic Theory and Mean Free Path

WEEK 4

DEFINITIONS OF WAVES AND PARTICLES
(based on Chapter 2)

Basic Wave Characteristics
Wave-Particle Duality of Light

The Schrodinger Equation
Solution for Free Particles

WEEK 5

STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS
(based on Chapter 4)

Ensembles and Statistical Distribution Functions
Microcanonical Ensembly and Entropy
Canonical and Grand Canonical Ensembles
Molecular Partition Functions
Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein, and Boltzmann Distributions

Internal Energy and Specific Heats
Gases
Electrons in Crystals
Phonons and Photons

Internal Energy and Specific Heats at different size Scales

TO BE CONTINUED.....