Lecture 1: Definitions of System, Property, State, and Weight Process; First Law and Energy
Lecture 2: Second Law and Entropy; Adiabatic Availability; Maximum Entropy Principle
Lecture 3: Energy vs Entropy Diagrams to Represent Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium States
Lecture 4: Temperature, Pressure, Chemical Potentials; The Clausius Statement of the Second Law
Lecture 5: Definition of Heat Interaction; First and Second Law Efficiencies
Quiz 1 due
Lecture 6: Free Energies, Available Energies, and Stability Conditions
Lecture 7: Availability Functions and the LeChatelier-Braun Principle
Quiz 2 due
Lecture 8: Few versus Many Particles: The Euler Relation; Review of Various Forms of Exergy (Part I)
Lecture 9: Minimum Work of Partitioning Small Systems; Gibbs’ Phase Rule; The Van der Waals Model
Lecture 10: Review of Various Forms of Exergy (Part II); Allocation of Consumptions in Cogeneration
Lecture 11: Allocation in Hybrid Power Production; Chemical Potentials and Partial Pressures
Lecture 12: Ideal Mixture Behavior; Work from Reversible Mixing; Entropy of Irreversible Mixing
Lecture 13: Gibbs Paradox; Shannon Information Entropy; Single Quantum Particle in a Box
Lecture 14: Ideal Solution Model; Osmotic Pressure; Blue Energy; Minimum Work of Separation
Lecture 15: Stratification in Gas and Liquid Mixtures; Liquid-Vapor Spinodal Decomposition
Lecture 16: Liquid-Vapor Equilibria in Mixtures; Ideal and Excess Chemical Potentials
Lecture 17: Liquid-Liquid Spinodal Decomposition; Introduction to Systems with Chemical Reactions
Lecture 18: Properties of Reaction; Heating Values and Exergy of Fuels; Adiabatic Flame Temperature
Lecture 19: Affinity and Nonequilibrium Law of Mass Action; Potential Energy Surface
Lecture 20: Chemical Kinetics; The Arrhenius Law; Degree of Disequilibrium; Principle of Detailed Balance
Lecture 21: Introduction to Nonequilibrium Theory; Onsager Reciprocity and Maximum Entropy Production
Quiz 3 due
Lecture 22: Definition of “Heat&Diffusion” Interaction; Diffusive and Convective Fluxes
Lecture 23: Direct and Cross Effects; General Principles of Entropy Production; The Fourth Law
Lecture 24: Relative Diffusion Fluxes; Thermoelectric Effects
Quiz 4 due
Lecture 25: Thermodiffusive Effects; Multicomponent Transport
Final Oral Exam
