27. The Canonical Ensemble -- Course in Thermal and Statistical Physics

This is a video of part of a lecture course in thermal and statistical physics I taught at the Catholic University of Korea in 2013. This lecture includes: motivation for the canonical ensemble (0:00) statistical mechanics of a system connected to a thermal reservoir (5:30) definition of the canonical partition function (16:36) definition of the Boltzmann factor (19:15) properties of the canonical partition function (23:42)