Fundamentals of Macroscopic and Microscopic Thermodynamics

Description

In this course, you will learn

• Mechanical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Fluid Mechanics
• Quantum Mechanics

Syllabus :

1. Program Introduction

• Statistical Thermodynamics: Introductions and Background
• A Brief Overview
• The Nature of Matter
• Work, Energy and the First Law for a Point Source
• Internal Energy, Heat Transfer and the 1st Law for Real Systems
• Equilibrium and Thermodynamic Properties

 

2. Macroscopic Thermodynamics

• Fundamentals of Macroscopic Thermodynamics
• The Thermodynamic Definition of Temperature
• The Thermodynamic Definition of Pressure
• The Thermodynamic Definition of Chemical Potential
• Representation and the Equations of State, Euler Equations and the Gibbs-Duhem Relation
• Alternative Representations
• Quasi-Static Processes
• Maxwell's Relations
• Building Property Relations

 

3. Microscopic Thermodynamics

• Role of Statistics in Thermodynamics
• The Postulates of Microscopic Thermodynamics
• Solving for the Most Probable Distribution
• The Partition Function
• Fluctuations
• Quantum Statistics

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