The purpose of this course is to provide students fundamental concepts in thermodynamics of materials. 1. Equation of States 2. Relationship between Heat and Work 3. Constant-Volume Processes 4. Reversible Adiabatic Processes 5. Heat Engine 6. Concept of Microstate 7. Free Energy 8. Chemical Potential 9. Maxwell’s Equations 10. Heat Capacity, Enthalpy, Entropy 11. Equilibrium between Vapor Phase and Condensed Phase 12. Solid-Solid Equilibria 13. The P-V-T Relationships of Gases 14. Nonideal Gases 15. Raoult’s Law and Henry’s Law 16. Nonideal Solutions 17. Regular Solutions 18. Subregular Solutions

Textbook:
D. R. Gaskell and D. E. Laughlin, Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials, 6th edition, CRC Press, 2018.

References:
1. R. T. DeHoff, Thermodynamics in Materials Science, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
2. Y. A. Chang and W. A. Oates, Materials Thermodynamics, John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
3. D. V. Ragone, Thermodynamics of Materials, Volumes I & II, John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
4. H. G. Lee, Chemical Thermodynamics for Metals and Materials, Imperial College Press, 1999.