Included below is the calendar for the kinetics portion of 3.205, typically taught in a six-week period in the second half of the semester. The thermodynamics segment of 3.205, taught in the first half of the semester, is not included in this publication.
Course calendar.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
| 1 |
Fields and Gradients, Fluxes, Continuity Equation |
| 2 |
Entropy Production, Conjugate Driving Forces |
| 3 |
Mass Diffusion in a Continuum, Diffusion Coefficients |
| 4 |
Solutions to the Diffusion/Heat Equation, Atomistic Mechanisms of Diffusion |
| 5 |
Diffusion in Ionic Crystals |
| 6 |
Role of Microstructure in Diffusion; Short Circuits |
| 7 |
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation |
| 8 |
Diffusional Growth, The "Moving Boundary" Problem |
| 9 |
Solidification |
| 10 |
Spinodal Decomposition |
| 11 |
Particle Coarsening |
| 12 |
Sintering |
