Calendar

Day # Lectures Assignments Recitations
1 Introduction and Course Description
2 Course Survey Problem Set 1
3 Thermodynamic Variables
4 State Variables and Functions
5 Recitation 2
6 Thermodynamic Systems and Processes Problem Set 2
7 Energy and Work
8 Properties of Materials
9 Recitation 3
10 Stored Energy in Solids, First Law for Fluids Problem Set 3
11 Quasi-static Processes
12 Recitation 4
13 Heat Capacities and Gaseous Behavior
14 Internal Energy and Enthalpy for Fluids
15 Problem Set 4
16 Thermodynamic Functions for General Systems
17 Recitation 5
18 Exam I
19 The Second Law
20 Heat Stored during Phase Changes
21 Recitation 6
Review 1
22 Gibbs Free Energy
23 Entropy Content in Materials
24 Conditions of Equilibrium Problem Set 5
25 Describing the State of an Alloy
26 Generalized Conditions for Equilibrium
27 Recitation 8
28 The Chemical Potential
29 Mathematics of Thermodynamics
30 Mathematical Relations and Changing Variables
31 Recitation 9
32 Mathematics and Stability Problem Set 6 and
Problem Set 7
33 Implications of Equilibrium and Gibbs-Duhem
34 Symmetry and Equilibrium
35 The Gibbs Phase Rule and its Application
36 Exam II
37 Gibbs Free Energy and Phase Diagrams
38 Uniformity of Chemical Potential at Equilibrium
39 Important Geometrical Constructions
40 Phase Diagrams
41 Using Phase Diagrams Problem Set 8
42 Graduate Student Presentation
43 Solution Thermodynamics
44 Unstable Solutions
45 Equilibrium Conditions for Solid Solutions
46 Equilibrium Conditions for Charged Species
47 Introduction to Surface Thermodynamics
48 Final Review
49 Final Exam