Thermodynamics of Materials. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: MATH 211 or MATH 213 , MTEN 201 . Laws of thermodynamics and their correlation with molecular phenomena describing materials systems in equilibrium. Applications to properties, reactions and phase equilibria in materials. Thermodynamic foundation, interpretation and utilization of binary phase diagrams. Contemporary software for phase diagram calculation. Thermodynamic principles describing liquid and solid solutions, chemical reactions, and order-disorder phase transitions.