Each class lecture includes structure and bonding content and thermodynamics content.
Instructor for Structure and Bonding: Prof. Nicola Marzari
Instructor for Thermodynamics: Prof. Darrell Irvine
For most lectures, slides are presented below in two versions: the original slides, and annotated slides with in-class markup by the instructors.
| Structure and Bonding | Thermodynamics | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ses # | Topics | Annotated Slides | Topics | Annotated Slides |
| Orientation: Research and Careers in Materials Science and Engineering (PDF - 2.6 MB) (Courtesy of Prof. Caroline Ross. Used with permission.) | ||||
| L1 | Classical or Quantum: Electrons as Waves, Wave Mechanics (PDF 1) (PDF 2) | (PDF 1)\n \n(PDF 2) | Fundamental Concepts (PDF - 3.2 MB) | (PDF - 1.5 MB) |
| L2 | Schrödinger’s Equation and Discrete Energy States of a Confined Electron (PDF) | (PDF) | Fundamental Concepts (cont.) (PDF) | (PDF - 2.6 MB) |
| L3 | Free Electrons, Electrons in a Metal, and the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (PDF) | (PDF) | First Law of Thermodynamics (PDF) | (PDF - 2.2 MB) |
| L4 | Curiosity Killed the Cat: General Principles of Quantum Mechanics (PDF) | (PDF - 1.0 MB) | Temperature, Heat, and Entropy (PDF - 1.2 MB) | (PDF - 1.0 MB) |
| L5 | The Hydrogen Atom (PDF) | (PDF) | Heat Storage and Release in Phase Transitions (PDF - 1.1 MB) | (PDF - 2.1 MB) |
| L6 | The Hydrogen Atom (cont.) (PDF) | (PDF) | Examples of Work Important in Materials Science and Engineering: Polarization, Magnetic, Chemical (PDF) | (PDF) |
| L7 | Alphabet Soup: The Periodic Table (PDF) | (PDF) | Thermal Properties of Materials; Fundamental Equations (PDF - 3.9 MB) | (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
| L8 | The Periodic Table (cont.) (PDF) | (PDF) | Fundamental Equations (cont.); Equilibrium and the Second Law (PDF) | (PDF) |
| L9 | The Variational Principle; Application to Hydrogen Atom (PDF) | (PDF) | Free Energy; Applying the Second Law in Laboratory Conditions (PDF - 1.7 MB) | (PDF) |
| L10 | Molecules from Atoms: Energy Minimization, Hybridization of Atomic Orbitals (PDF) | (PDF) | Chemical Potentials and the Gibbs Free Energy (PDF - 1.1 MB) | (PDF - 2.4 MB) |
| L11 | Bonding in Molecules: Hartree and Hartree-Fock Equations, Symmetries, Bond Order (PDF) | (PDF) | Models of the Chemical Potential (PDF) | (PDF - 1.2 MB) |
| L12 | Polymers Part 1: Diagonalization on a Basis, Huckel Model (PDF) | Chemical Reaction Equilibria (PDF) | (PDF) | |
| L13 | Quantum Oscillation (PDF) | Electrochemical Equilibria (PDF) | (PDF - 3.4 MB) | |
| L14 | Point Groups and Bravais Lattices (PDF - 1.8 MB) | Batteries; Thermodynamic Stability (PDF) | (PDF - 2.8 MB) | |
| L15 | Symmetry Operations (PDF) | Phase Changes and Phase Diagrams of Single-Component Materials (PDF - 1.8 MB) | (PDF - 9.0 MB) | |
| L16 | Structure of Solids (PDF - 1.8 MB) | (PDF - 1.9 MB) | Single-Component Phase Diagrams (cont.); Thermodynamics of Solutions (PDF - 2.7 MB) | (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
| L17 | X-ray Diffraction (PDF - 1.4 MB) | (PDF - 1.5 MB) | Free Energy of Multi-phase Solutions at Equilibrium (PDF - 1.1 MB) | (PDF - 2.3 MB) |
| L18 | X-rays at Work: Laue Condition, Ewald Construction, Bragg’s Law, Powder Diffraction (PDF - 1.7 MB) | (PDF - 2.0 MB) | Binary Phase Diagrams: Miscibility Gaps and Eutectics (PDF - 1.9 MB) | (PDF - 1.8 MB) |
| L19 | From Diffraction to Structure (PDF - 1.1 MB) | (PDF - 1.2 MB) | Binary Phase Diagrams (cont.) (PDF) | (PDF) |
| L20 | Symmetries and Tensors (PDF) | (PDF) | Spinodals and Binodals; Continuous Phase Transitions; Introduction to Statistical Mechanics (PDF) | (PDF - 2.5 MB) |
| L21 | Non-crystalline Materials (PDF - 2.3 MB) | (PDF - 1.9 MB) | Connecting Events at the Atomic/Molecular Level to Macroscopic Thermodynamic Behavior: Two Postulates of Statistical Mechanics; Microscopic Definition of Entropy (PDF) | (PDF - 1.2 MB) |
| L22 | Polymers Part 2 (PDF) | (PDF) | Connecting Events at the Atomic/Molecular Level to Macroscopic Thermodynamic Behavior (cont.): The Boltzman Factor and Partition Function; Thermal Behavior of the Einstein Solid (PDF) | (PDF - 2.0 MB) |
| L23 | Glasses (PDF - 2.3 MB) | (PDF - 1.2 MB) | Lattice Models of Materials; Modeling Polymer Solutions (PDF - 4.1 MB) | (PDF - 3.4 MB) |
| L24 | Liquid Crystals (PDF - 9.3 MB) | (PDF - 9.4 MB) | Flory-Huggins Theory (PDF - 1.5 MB) | (PDF - 2.6 MB) |
