Thermodynamics Lecture Notes

Overview & Synopsis

This note covers the following topics systems surroundings and thermodynamic variables work and equilibrium introduced, temperature and the zeroth law of thermodynamics, basic properties of basic systems, reversible processes, internal energy heat capacities and the first law of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic expansions, ideal gas and Van der waals equation of state, cyclic processes heat engines, the second law of thermodynamics, carnots theorem, thermodynamic temperature scale, Carnot devices, the clausius inequality entropy and principle of increase in entropy, the central equation of thermodynamics, entropy probablilty and disorder, the thermodynamic potentials internal energy enthalpy helmholtz and gibbs free energy, Maxwells relations, properties and processes including applications of Maxwells relations, magnetic systems refrigeration and black body radiation, phases the PVT surface and the equlibrium condition for two phases, phase equilibrium, positive compressibility and heat capacity, calculating entropy, the clausiusclapeyron equation, the vaporization curve, first order phase changes, second order phase changes, the Ehrenfest equations, the third law of thermodynamics.