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The calendar includes a complete listing of lecture topics and subject areas covered for each, as well as links to accompanying assignments and recitations files whenever available.





DAY #LECTURESASSIGNMENTSRECITATIONS
1Introduction and Course Description
2Course SurveyProblem Set 1 (PDF - 1.2 MB)
3Thermodynamic Variables
4State Variables and Functions
5Recitation 2 (PDF)
6Thermodynamic Systems and ProcessesProblem Set 2 (PDF - 1 MB)
7Energy and Work
8Properties of Materials
9Recitation 3 (PDF - 1 MB)
10Stored Energy in Solids, First Law for FluidsProblem Set 3 (PDF -  2.1 MB)
11Quasi-static Processes
12Recitation 4
13Heat Capacities and Gaseous Behavior
14Internal Energy and Enthalpy for Fluids
15Problem Set 4 (PDF)
16Thermodynamic Functions for General Systems
17Recitation 5
18Exam I
19The Second Law
20Heat Stored during Phase Changes
21Recitation 6
Review 1
22Gibbs Free Energy
23Entropy Content in Materials
24Conditions of EquilibriumProblem Set 5 (PDF - 1 MB)
25Describing the State of an Alloy
26Generalized Conditions for Equilibrium
27Recitation 8
28The Chemical Potential
29Mathematics of Thermodynamics
30Mathematical Relations and Changing  Variables
31Recitation 9
32Mathematics and Stability

Problem Set 6 (PDF - 1 MB) and 7 (PDF)

33Implications of Equilibrium and Gibbs-Duhem
34Symmetry and Equilibrium
35The Gibbs Phase Rule and its Application
36Exam II
37Gibbs Free Energy and Phase Diagrams
38Uniformity of Chemical Potential at Equilibrium
39Important Geometrical Constructions
40Phase Diagrams
41Using Phase DiagramsProblem Set 8 (PDF - 1.1 MB)
42Graduate Student Presentation
43Solution Thermodynamics
44Unstable Solutions
45Equilibrium Conditions for Solid Solutions
46Equilibrium Conditions for Charged Species
 







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