Schedule
- Week One: Conservation of Energy, Microscopic Model of Ideal Gas.
- Week Two: Equipartition of Energy, Compression Work, Heat Capacities, Latent Heat, Enthalpy.
- Week Three: Two-state systems, Einstein Model of a Solid, Large Numbers.
- Week Four: Stirling's Approximation, Multiplicity of Einstein Solid and Ideal Gas.
- Week Five: Entropy, Sackur-Tetrode Equation, Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Week Six: Statistical Definition of Temperature, Macroscopic view of Entropy, Statistical Definition of Pressure,
- Week Seven: Chemical Potential, Heat Engines, Carnot Cycle.
- Week Eight: Refrigerators, Otto and Diesel Cycles, Heat Pumps, Steam Engines.
- Week Nine: Helmholtz and Gibbs Free Energies, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Phase Transitions of Pure Substances.
- Week Ten: Clausius-Clapeyron Relation, Vapor Pressure, Phase Transitions of Mixtures, Dilute Solutions, Osmotic Pressure.