09-611   Chemical Thermodynamics

Location: Pittsburgh

Units: 6

Semester Offered: Fall

This course provides an introduction to the general formalism of macroscopic thermodynamics and its applications to chemical systems. The main topics to be covered include: entropy maximum postulate, internal energy minimum postulate, various equilibrium conditions including chemical equilibrium, Legendre transformation and free energies, thermochemistry, phase equilibria and solution systems.

Instructor: Hyung Kim