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Duration | 9 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Advanced |
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- Course 1 first explores the basics of both macroscopic and microscopic thermodynamics from a postulatory point of view. In this view, the meaning of temperature, thermodynamic pressure and chemical potential are especially clear and easy to understand. In addition , the development of the Fundamental Relation and its various transformations leads to a clear path to property relations and to the concept of ensembles needed to understand the relationship between atomic and molecular structural properties and macroscopic properties. We then explore the relationship between atomic and molecular structure and macroscopic properties by taking a statistical point of view. Using a postulatory approach, the method for doing this is made clear. This leads to the development of the partition function which describes the distribution of molecular quantum states as a function of the independent, macroscopic thermodynamic properties.
Fundamentals of Macroscopic and Microscopic Thermodynamics at Coursera Curriculum
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
Bibliography
A Brief Overview
The Nature of Matter
Work, Energy and the 1st Law for a Point Mass
Internal Energy, Heat Transfer and the 1st Law for Real Systems
Equilibrium and Thermodynamic Properties
Problem 1.3
Problem 1.4
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
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
Problem 2.2
Problem 2.3
Problem 2.4
Microscopic Thermodynamics
Role of Statistics in Thermodynamics
The Postulates of Microscopic Thermodynamics
Solving for the Most Probable Distribution
The Partition Function
Fluctuations
Quantum Statistics
Role of Statistics in Thermodynamics
The Postulates of Microscopic Thermodynamics
Solving for the Most Probable Distribution
The Partition Function
Fluctuations
Quantum Statistics
Problem 3.1
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