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Thermodynamics of Materials

Subjects: Engineering · Science

Art: Georg Agricola, De re metallica - dowsing (125711292), 1556 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Rafael Jaramillo
Term: Spring 2021
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 38 videos · 10 problem sets · 3 solutions · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 93 other files · 5 web pages
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Thermodynamics of Materials

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Lecture 1: Introduction to Thermodynamics

Lecture 2: Scope and Use of Thermodynamics

Lecture 3: Process Variables and the First Law

Lecture 4: Heat Engines and Energy Conversion Efficiency

Lecture 5: Second Law and Entropy Maximization

Lecture 6: Thermodynamic Potentials

Lecture 7: Ideal Gas Processes

Lecture 8: Mathematical Implications of Equilibrium and Spontaneous Processes

Lecture 9: Case Studies - Specific Heats and Phase Transformations

Lecture 10: Introduction to Unary Phase Transformations

Lecture 11: Phase Coexistence in Unary Systems

Lecture 12: Case Studies - Saturation Vapor Pressure

Lecture 13: Introduction to Ideal (Gas) Mixtures

Lecture 14: Reacting Gas Mixtures at Equilibrium

Lecture 15: Introduction to Solutions, General Case

Lecture 16: Partial Molar Properties

Lecture 17: Solution Models - Ideal, Dilute, and Regular

Lecture 18: Case Study in Reacting Gas Mixtures - Introducing the Nernst Equation

Lecture 19: Regular Solution Models and Stability

Lecture 20: Introduction to Binary Phase Diagrams

Lecture 21: Phase Coexistence and Separation

Lecture 22: Free Energy-Composition Diagrams, General Case

Lecture 23: Building Binary Phase Diagrams, Part I

Lecture 24: Building Binary Phase Diagrams, Part II

Lecture 25: Building Binary Phase Diagrams, Part III

Lecture 26: CALPHAD - Case Studies and Guest Lecture

Lecture 27: Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics

Lecture 28: Boltzmann Hypothesis

Lecture 29: Boltzmann Distribution

Lecture 30: Intermediate Phases and Reactions

Lecture 31: Reacting Multi-phase Systems

Lecture 32: Case Study - Reacting, Multi-component, Multi-phase Systems

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