Teaching Resource - Metallurgy and Materials Science & Engineering

This course deals primarily with equilibrium properties of macroscopic systems, basic thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium of reactions in gas and solution phase, and rates of chemical reactions.

Lecture list:

1. State of a system, 0th law, equation of state
2. Work, heat, first law
3. Internal energy, expansion work
4. Enthalpy
5. Adiabatic changes
6. Thermochemistry
7. Calorimetry
8. Second law
9. Entropy and the Clausius inequality
10. Entropy and irreversibility
11. Fundamental equation, absolute S, third law
12. Criteria for spontaneous change

Lecture list:

1. Gibbs free energy
2. Multicomponent systems, chemical potential
3. Chemical equilibrium
4. Temperature, pressure and Kp
5. Equilibrium: application to drug design
6. Phase equilibria — one component
7. Clausius-Clapeyron equation
8. Phase equilibria — two components
9. Ideal solutions
10. Non-ideal solutions
11. Colligative properties
12. Introduction to statistical mechanics

Lecture list:

1. Partition function (q) — large N limit
2. Partition function (Q) — many particles
3. Statistical mechanics and discrete energy levels
4. Model systems
5. Applications: chemical and phase equilibria
6. Introduction to reaction kinetics
7. Complex reactions and mechanisms
8. Steady-state and equilibrium approximations
9. Chain reactions
10. Temperature dependence, E_a, catalysis
11. Enzyme catalysis
12. Autocatalysis and oscillators