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CENG 411 Syllabus

The syllabus below indicates course content and not the specific order in which the material will be covered. The syllabus is subject to change.

1. Introduction to Thermodynamics
-Equilibrium
-Work
-Exact and inexact differentials, basic multivariable calculus
-Energy: internal energy, kinetic energy, potential energy
-Heat

2. The First Law of Thermodynamics
-closed and open systems
-conservative and non-conservative forces, state functions

3. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
-statistical thermodynamics: irreversibility and the attainment of equilibrium
-definition of temperature and entropy
-heat reservoirs
-heat capacity and specific heat

4. The Third Law of Thermodynamics

5. The Ideal Gas
-equation of state
-isothermal, reversible expansions
-adiabatic reversible expansions

6. Maxwell Relations
-Definition of Helmholtz Free Energy, Gibbs Free Energy, Enthalpy
-throttling processes
-First Law for Open Systems

7. Non-Ideal Fluids
-virial expansions
-compressibility factors
-van der Waals equation of state

8. Phase Transitions
-intensive variables, molar quantities
-Gibbs Phase Rule
-the critical point
-Clausius-Clapeyron equation
-thermodynamic diagrams

9. Heat Changes
-heat changes of reaction and formation
-combustion reactions

10. Heat Engines
-Carnot cycles
-refrigerators
-power generation

11.Introduction to Solution and Multicomponent Thermodynamics.
-Chemical Potential and Phase Equilibria
-Fugacity
-Ideal Solutions

Last updated: Jan 10, 2002
© J. L. Goveas 2002
jlgoveas@rice.edu