Standard syllabus
Thermodynamics · Undergraduate · Physics
Topics
Fundamentals and first law
- Temperature, heat, and work; state variables
- Equations of state for ideal and real gases
- First law for closed and open systems
- Enthalpy and specific heats
- Reversible and irreversible processes
Second law and entropy
- Heat engines, refrigerators, and Carnot cycle
- Entropy as a state function
- Clausius inequality and entropy production
- Thermodynamic potentials: Gibbs and Helmholtz
- Maxwell relations and Jacobian methods (intro)
Phase transitions and mixtures
- Phase diagrams and Clausius–Clapeyron equation
- Chemical potential and Gibbs phase rule
- Ideal and non-ideal solutions
- Osmotic pressure and colligative properties
- Critical phenomena overview
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