Courses

Concept of temperature, equations of state; the first and the second law of thermodynamics;

Thermodynamic laws and applications. (At the level of Black and Hartley.)

Explores fundamental concepts and basic theory, including first and second laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic functions, properties, states, cycles, pure substances, and chemical and phase equilibrium.

Principles and applications of thermodynamics to engineering problems.

Laws of thermodynamics to describe phase equilibria and phase transformations in one-component and multi-component systems, mechanisms of diffusion, the interplay of thermodynamic driving forces and kinetics of mass transfer in materials systems

Basic concepts and principles of thermodynamics; introduction to methods of statistical mechanics to calculate properties of systems in thermodynamic equilibrium.

This course covers the thermodynamic laws and potentials, entropy, phase transitions, and classical and quantum statistical physics with application to physical systems.

Students study foundational concepts of classical thermodynamics, including thermodynamic functions. These concepts are formally connected to and derived Equations (MATH 3376) is recommended, though it may be taken concurrently.

A survey of the laws,methods and concepts of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics: ideal and nonideal gasses, heat, work, internal energy, enthalpy, heat engines, entropy, chemical potential, heat capacity, phase diagrams.

Elements of classical statistical mechanics and thermodynamics with an introduction to quantum statistical mechanics. Also listed as PH 456 but creditable only in field for which registered.