Instructor(s)
Prof. Gerbrand Ceder
Dr. Anton Van der Ven
MIT Course Number
3.20
As Taught In
Fall 2003
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
Material covered in this course includes the following topics:
- Laws of thermodynamics: general formulation and applications to mechanical, electromagnetic and electrochemical systems, solutions, and phase diagrams
- Computation of phase diagrams
- Statistical thermodynamics and relation between microscopic and macroscopic properties, including ensembles, gases, crystal lattices, phase transitions
- Applications to phase stability and properties of mixtures
- Computational modeling
- Interfaces
This course was also taught as part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) programme as course number SMA 5111 (Materials at Equilibrium).