3.020 | Spring 2021 | Undergraduate

Thermodynamics of Materials

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This section contains the lecture boards from each class in PDF and LaTeX (ZIP files) format.
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Lecture 1 - Introduction to Thermodynamics
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Lecture 2 Notes - Scope and Use of Thermodynamics
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Lecture 3 Notes - Process Variables and the First Law
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Lecture 4 Notes - Heat Engines and Energy Conversion Efficiency
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Lecture 5 Notes - Second Law and Entropy Maximization
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Lecture 6 Notes - Thermodynamic Potentials
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Lecture 7 Notes - Ideal Gas Processes
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Lecture 8 Notes - Mathematical Implications of Equilibrium & Spontaneous Processes
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Lecture 9 Notes - Case Studies - Specific Heats and Phase Transformations
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Lecture 10 Notes - Introduction to Unary Phase Transformations
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Lecture 11 Notes - Phase Coexistence in Unary Systems
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Lecture 12 Notes - Case Studies - Saturation Vapor Pressure
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Lecture 13 Notes - Introduction to Ideal (Gas) Mixtures
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Lecture 14 Notes - Reacting Gas Mixtures at Equillibrium
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Lecture 15 Notes - Introduction to Solutions, General Case
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Lecture 16 Notes - Partial Molar Properties
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Lecture 17 Notes - Solution Models - Ideal, Dilute, and Regular
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Lecture 18 Notes - Case Study in Reacting Gas Mixtures - Introducing the Nernst Equation
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Lecture 19 Notes - Regular Solution Models and Stability
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Lecture 20 Notes - Introduction to Binary Phase Diagrams
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Lecture 21 Notes - Phase Coexistence and Separation
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Lecture 22 Notes - Free Energy-Composition Diagrams, General Case
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Lecture 23 Notes - Building Binary Phase Diagrams, Part I
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Lecture 24 Notes - Building Binary Phase Diagrams, Part II
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Lecture 25 Notes - Building Binary Phase Diagrams, Part III
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Lecture 27 Notes - Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics
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Lecture 28 Notes - Boltzmann Hypothesis
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Lecture 29 Notes - Boltzmann Distribution
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Lecture 30 Notes - Intermediate Phases and Reactions
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Lecture 31 Notes - Reacting Multi-phase Systems
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Lecture 32 Notes - Case Study - Reacting, Multi-component, Multi-phase Systems

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