Chemical Thermodynamics (IQD 0101)
Undergraduate course, Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Química, 2022
Upper-division Physical-Chemistry course intending to deepen the understanding of chemical phenomena by making connections between classical thermodynamics and the microscopic world. Focus on the study of equilibrium states and their stability.
Program: The basic problem of Thermodynamics. Defining equilibrium and the four postulates. Microscopic interpretation of entropy and energy. The Boltzmann distribution and the kinetic theory of gases. Condensed phases and intermolecular interactions. Euler equations and Gibbs-Duhem relations. Reversibility and maximum work. Thermodynamic potentials and Legendre transforms. Extremum principle in all representations. Free energies and experimental conditions. Maxwell relations. Stability of thermodynamic systems.
Recommended textbooks:
- H. B. Callen, Thermodynamics and an introduction to thermostatistics, segunda edição, John Wiley and Sons, 1985.
- K. A. Dill and S. Bromberg, Molecular Driving Forces, segunda edição, Taylor and Francis, 2011.
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