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[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 16 points 11 months 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.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months 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.

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