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Thermodynamics of Solids
N265600

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Office Hours

bjli@mail.ncku.edu.tw
(06)2757575 ext. 62345
Tuesday(14:00-16:00)
Thursday(14:00-16:00)

This course is designed to bring students with

diverse undergraduate backgrounds (in various
scientific and engineering disciplines) to a
common level in thermodynamics as applied to
materials science and engineering.

1.

Gaskell: Ch01 Introduction and Definition of

Terms
Gaskell: Ch02 The First Law of Thermodynamics

Review of the first, second and third laws

of thermodynamics
2. Statistical thermodynamics
3. Phase equilibrium in a one-component
system
4. Behaviors of gases and solutions
5. Gibbs free energy-composition and
phase diagrams of binary systems
6. Reaction involving gases, pure
condensed phases and a gaseous phase
7. Reaction equilibria in systems containing
components in condensed solution
8. Electrochemistry
9. Diffusion
10. Surface and interface
11. Defects

Gaskell: Ch03 The Second Law of

Thermodynamics
Gaskell: Ch04 Statistical Interpretation of Entropy
Gaskell: Ch05 Auxiliary Functions
Gaskell: Ch06 Heat Capacity, Enthalpy, Entropy,
and the Third Law of Thermodynamics
Gaskell: Ch07 Phase Equilibrium in a Onecomponent System
Gaskell: Ch08 Behavior of Gases:
Van der Waals Gas
Gaskell: Ch09 Behavior of Solutions
Gaskell: Ch10 Gibbs Free Energy - Composition
and Phase Diagrams of Binary Systems
Midterm Exam
Ragone, I: Ch05 Chemical Equilibrium
Ragone, I: Ch06 Electrochemistry
Ragone, I: Ch07 Phase Rule
Ragone, II: Ch03 Defects in Solids
Ragone, II: Ch04 Surfaces and Interfaces
Ragone, II: Ch05 Diffusion
Ragone, II: Ch06 Transformations
Ragone, II: Ch07 Reaction Kinetics
Mansoori: Nanothermodynamics
Final Exam

1. R. Gaskell, Introduction to the

thermodynamics of materials 4th ed.
Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis, 2003.
2. D. V. Ragone, Thermodynamics of
Materials vol. 1: John Wiley, 1994.
3. D. V. Ragone, Thermodynamics of
Materials vol. II: John Wiley, 1994.
4. R. A. Swalin, Thermodynamics of Solids,
2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1972.
5. J. B. Hudson, Thermodynamics of
Materials: A Classical and Statistical
Synthesis John Wiley, 1996.

6. G. A. Mansoori, Principles of
nanotechnology: molecular-based study of
condensed matter in small systems: World
Scientific, 2005.

Midterm exam: 25%

Final exam: 25%

Homework: 25%
Discussion in Class: 25%

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