SUBJECT
Title
Thermodynamics
Type of instruction
lecture + practical
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, thermodynamic potentials and Legendre transformation, Maxwell relations, Jacobi transformation, phase transitions, the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, Gibbs' phase rule. Basics of the chemical thermodynamics, thermodynamics of gases, monatomic and polyatomic ideal gases, real gases.
Readings
Ambaum, M. H. P., 2010: Thermal physics of the atmosphere. Advancing Weather and Climate Science. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 256 p.
Johnson, K., 2009: Fundametal of thermodynamics. University of Pittsburgh. 100p. http://puccini.che.pitt.edu/~karlj/Classes/CHE2101/