James H. Luscombe is Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1983. After post-doctoral positions at the University of Toronto and Iowa State University, he joined the Research Laboratory of Texas Instruments, where he worked on the development of nanoelectronic devices, before joining the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994. He was Chair of the Department of Physics between 2003 and 2009. He teaches a wide variety of topics, including general relativity, statistical mechanics, mathematical methods, and quantum computation.

Thermodynamic Basics. 1.Concepts of thermodynamics. 2 Second law of thermodynamics Direction of heat flow.3. Entropy. 4. Thermodynamic potentials The four ways to say energy. 5. Thermodynamics of radiation. 6. Phase and chemical equilibrium. 7 Statistical entropy From micro to macro. 8. The third law - You can't get to T = 0. 9. To this point. Additional Topics in Thermodynamics. 10. Caratheodory formulation. 11. Negative absolute temperature. 12. Thermodynamics of information. 13. Black hole thermodynamics. 14. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics. 16.Superconductors and superfluids. Epilogue: Where to now?