Thermodynamics: Four Laws That Move the Universe
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Course Description
Overview
Delve into the fascinating and enormously important subject of thermodynamics and discover the four laws that govern so much of the world around us.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Thermodynamics-What's under the Hood
- 02: Variables and the Flow of Energy
- 03: Temperature-Thermodynamics' First Force
- 04: Salt, Soup, Energy, and Entropy
- 05: The Ideal Gas Law and a Piston
- 06: Energy Transferred and Conserved
- 07: Work-Heat Equivalence
- 08: Entropy-The Arrow of Time
- 09: The Chemical Potential
- 10: Enthalpy, Free Energy, and Equilibrium
- 11: Mixing and Osmotic Pressure
- 12: How Materials Hold Heat
- 13: How Materials Respond to Heat
- 14: Phases of Matter-Gas, Liquid, Solid
- 15: Phase Diagrams-Ultimate Materials Maps
- 16: Properties of Phases
- 17: To Mix, or Not to Mix?
- 18: Melting and Freezing of Mixtures
- 19: The Carnot Engine and Limits of Efficiency
- 20: More Engines-Materials at Work
- 21: The Electrochemical Potential
- 22: Chemical Reactions-Getting to Equilibrium
- 23: The Chemical Reaction Quotient
- 24: The Greatest Processes in the World
Taught by
Jeffrey C. Grossman
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