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

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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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