Credit Weight: 0.5 Description: Fundamentals of thermodynamics: sign conventions, definitions of heat, work and thermodynamic functions. Equations of state. Heat capacity. Constant composition systems: calculations of thermodynamic properties for closed and open systems, and in chemical reactions. Second law of thermodynamics and its applications. Variable composition systems: ideal and non-ideal mixtures and solutions. Vapour-liquid equilibrium. Chemical reaction equilibrium. Introduction to electrochemical thermodynamics. Offering: 0-0; 3-1.5
