Course Catalog

Thermodynamics (MATS 502)

Offered By:  Engineering and Materials Science Faculty

Course Prerequisites

Description

  • Phase borders, solid, liquid, gaseous. Classification of phase transitions. Partial molar properties. Mixtures and enthalpy (entropy). Colligative properties, melting point depression, boiling increase, solubility, osmosis. Vapor pressure diagrams, azeotropes, distillation, immiscible liquids. Phase transitions in solids. Clausius Clapeyron equation
  • Phase rules
  • One-component, two components, three and more component systems
  • Second Law of Thermodynamics (short review)
  • Entropy as function of state, entropy balance equation, TS-diagrams, equilibrium and stability conditions, entropy and heat transfer (heat transfer as irreversible process), entropy and diffusion (entropy of mixing), friction, efficiency Applications for energy transformations in practice (exergy and anergy)
  • Ideal Gases, Equation of State (short review)
  • Avogadro, Gay-Lussac, Boyle, partial pressures, real gases: virial theorem and van-der Waals equation
  • First Law of Thermodynamics (short review)
  • Energy forms (mechanical and volume work, heat), equation of state, state functions (definition, T-dependence) other thermodynamic properties (heat capacities), elastic deformation of solids (heat and work), energy balance equations
  • Heat and Enthalpy at Chemical Reactions

 

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