Week1. Lecture 1 Fundamental concepts and laws of thermodynamics
1.1 The Scope of Thermodynamics ;
1.2 Applications of Thermodynamic Phenomena ;
1.3 Evolution of Thermodynamics ;
1.4 Equilibrium State ;
1.5 Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics and Temperature ;
1.6 The Equation of State ;
1.7 Ideal Gas and Real Gas
Week2. Lecture 1 Fundamental concepts and laws of thermodynamics
1.8 Work, Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics
1.9 Heat Capacity and Enthalpy
1.10 Applications of the 1st Law in Idea Gas
1.11 Carnot’s cycle
1.12 The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
1.13 Carnot’s theorem
1.14 Thermodynamics temperature scale
Week3. Lecture 1 Fundamental concepts and laws of thermodynamics
1.15 The Clausius theorem
1.16 Entropy
1.17 The calculations of entropy
1.18The entropy increase principle
1.19 Principle of maximum work
1.20 Free energy and Gibbs function
Week4. Lecture 2 Maxwell Relations and Their Applications
2.1 The Maxwell Relations
2.2 Applications of Maxwell Relations
2.3 Adiabatic Expansion, Throttling Expansion /Joule–Thomson expansion, and Cooling Machines
2.4 The Determination of Fundamental Thermodynamic Functions
Week5. Lecture 2 Maxwell Relations and Their Applications
2.5 Thermodynamic Functions of Gasses
2.6 Characteristic Thermodynamic Functions
2.7 Thermal Radiation
Week6. Lecture 2 Maxwell Relations and Their Applications
2.8 Magnetic Medium
2.9* Cooling Methods (not required in the exams)
Week7. Lecture 3 Phase Transition
3.1 Thermodynamic Functions in Open Systems
3.2 Equilibrium Criterion and Equilibrium Conditions
3.3 Stability of Equilibrium
3.4 Phase Equilibrium of Pure Substances
3.5 The formation of liquid droplet
Week8. Lecture 3 Phase Transition
3.6 Liquid - gas phase transition and Critical point
3.7 Normal-Superconducting Phase Transition
3.8 Ehrenfest Classification
Week9. Lecture 3 Phase Transition
3.9 Landau phase transition theory
3.10 Critical phenomena and critical exponents
Week10. Lecture 4 Chemical reactions and the 3rd law
4.1 Thermodynamic functions in multi-component systems
4.2 Equilibrium Conditions
4.3 Gibbs phase rule
Week11. Lecture 4 Chemical reactions and the 3rd law
4.4 Chemical equilibrium
4.5 Properties of mixed ideal gases
4.6 Chemical equilibrium of mixed ideal gases