Handbook

This is a course for postgraduate students in the School of Materials Science and Engineering. It provides fundamentals of thermodynamics of materials using lectures. The main subjects covered are thermodynamics basics; heat, work, and internal energy; heat capacity; enthalpy, entropy, and free energy; three laws of thermodynamics; redox processes; Equilibrium and gas-solid phase transitions (chemical equilibrium, first- and second-order phase transitions, fugacity and activity, gas-solid equilibria, Ellingham diagrams); Solution thermodynamics and phase diagram construction (Gibbs-Duhem equation, Raoult and Henry’s laws, Solutions and activity) and phase diagram construction); and interpretation and applications of binary and ternary phase diagrams (unary systems, binary systems, ternary effects on microstructures, phase calculations, drawing isothermal and vertical sections of real ternary systems).