Week - 1 |
Introduction:
(a) What determines how matter behaves?
(b) Importance of thermodynamics in our life and in
the discipline of materials science and
engineering. |
Week - 2 |
Basic terms and definitions in thermodynamics:
(a) System and system types.
(b) Surroundings.
(c) Universe.
(d) Boundary and boundary types.
(e) Process and process types.
(f) Path.
(g) Chemical component.
(h) Phase.
(i) Solution. |
Week - 3 |
Basic terms and definitions in thermodynamics (continued):
(j) State and state functions.
(k) Enthalpy, heat capacity, entropy and Gibbs
free energy.
(l) Process variables: work and heat.
(m) Extensive and intensive properties.
(n) Equation of state.
(o) Equilibrium.
(p) Ideal gas and the ideal gas law.
(q) Energy and units of work. |
Week - 4 |
The first law of thermodynamics:
(a) Relationship between heat and work.
(b) Internal energy and the first law of
thermodynamics.
(c) Internal energy and the constant volume
process.
(d) Enthalpy and the constant volume process.
(e) Heat capacity: specific and molar heat
capacity.
(f) Reversible adiabatic processes.
(g) Pressure and volume changes of an ideal gas
during a reversible isothermal expansion. |
Week - 5 |
(a) Quiz-1.
(b) Example problem solving. |
Week - 6 |
(a) Quiz-1.
(b) Example problem solving. |
Week - 7 |
The second law of thermodynamcis:
(a) Spontaneous or natural processes.
(b) Entropy and the degree of irreversibility.
(c) Reversible processes.
(d) Entropy and reversible heat.
(e) Reversible isothermal compression of an ideal
gas.
(f) Reversible adiabatic expansion of an ideal gas.
(g) Example problem solving. |
Week - 8 |
The second law of thermodynamcis (continued):
(h) Properties of steam engines (Carnot cycle).
(i) The second law of thermodynamics.
(j) Maximum work.
(k) Entropy as a criterion for equilibrium.
(l) Combined statement of the first and second
laws.
(m) Example problem solving. |
Week - 9 |
Heat capacity, enthalpy and entropy calculations and the third law of thermodynamics:
(a) Theoretical calculation of heat capacity.
(b) Empirical representation of heat capacity.
(c) Formation and reaction enthalpies.
(d) Effect of temperature on enthalpy and
entropy; calculation of the reaction enthalpy
and reaction entropy at any temperature.
(e) Example problem solving. |
Week - 10 |
Heat capacity, enthalpy and entropy calculations and the third law of thermodynamics (continued):
Quiz-2. |
Week - 11 |
Heat capacity, enthalpy and entropy calculations and the third law of thermodynamics (continued):
Example problem solving. |
Week - 12 |
Heat capacity, enthalpy and entropy calculations and the third law of thermodynamics (continued):
Example problem solving. |
Week - 13 |
Auxilliary functions:
(a) Energy functions and experimental variables.
(b) Coefficient relations.
(c) Maxwell relations.
(d) Basic strategies in developing thermodynamic
relations and thier application to ideal gases.
(e) Chemical potential.
(f) Upstairs-downstairs-inside-out formula.
(g) Gibbs-Helmholtz equation.
(h) The third law of thermodynamics.
(i) Effect of pressure on enthaply and entropy.
(j) Example problem solving. |
Week - 14 |
Equilibrum between phases in one-component systems:
(a) Variation of the Gibbs free energy with
temperature and pressure.
(b) The Clapeyron equation.
(c) The Clausius-Clapeyron equation.
(d) Schematic representation of equilibrium
conditions in one-component systems.
(e) Example problem solving. |