A central topic in thermal physics is the canonical probability distribution.

He never returned to radar research, but found entirely new avenues for his creativity: material science and thermal physics.

This page details the Helmholtz energy from the point of view of thermal and statistical physics.

The research of Fortov was related to thermal physics, shock waves, and plasma physics.

Other authors, however, define thermal physics loosely as a summation of only thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

In thermal physics, thermal energy is the type of energy that has a system that increases with its temperature.

In recent years, thermal physics has applied the definition of chemical potential to systems in particle physics and its associated processes.

He was a major designer of the Institute of Thermal Physics and its Director from 1964 up to death.

Importantly for thermal physics, he also observed that bright lines or dark lines were apparent depending on the temperature difference between emitter and absorber.

Along with Charles Kittel he co-authored the popular textbook Thermal Physics, first published in 1980, and still used today.