How to teach statistical thermal physics in the introductory physics course

Abstract

We report several simulation programs which can be used to teach the statistical foundation of thermal physics in the introductory college physics courses. These programs are simple applications of a technique of generating random configurations of many dice with fixed total value. By simulating dice throwing only we can demonstrate all the important principles of classical thermodynamics.

arXiv comment1 tex file, 6 gif figures. You can visit http://phys.snu.ac.kr/StatPhys/frame-e.htm and view or get the complete paper in pdf format or run the simulation applets and create figures in this paper yourselves