CHE 521 Chemical and Materials Thermodynamics
The principal areas of concentration include a review of the first and second laws of thermodynamics for closed and open systems; the calculus of thermodynamics; equilibrium criteria and stability criteria; properties of pure materials and unary systems; elementary applications of statistical thermodynamics to determine specific heats; chemical potentials and equilibria in heterogeneous systems, fugacity and activity functions; solution thermodynamics; vapor-liquid, liquid-liquid, vapor-liquid- liquid and solid-liquid equilibria and phase diagrams; chemical equilibria; surfaces and surface tension.
Cross Listed Courses
MT 521
Prerequisite
Graduate Student or At Least Junior