State and explain general concepts used in thermodynamics including the system and its surroundings, mechanisms of energy transfer; state versus path function.
Interpret the basic assumptions of the ideal gas law and illustrate how the van der Waals equation of state rectifies these assumptions to lead to a gas <-> liquid phase transition behavior and the critical point.
Apply the first law of thermodynamics by performing a detailed balance of energy transfer for a variety of real systems involving thermal energy.
Calculate efficiency in energy conversion;
Distinguish between thermodynamic potentials, their first derivatives, including chemical potential, and second derivatives.
Using published data, such as heat capacity, calculate the internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs and Helmholtz free energy changes of a system with respect to a reference state.
Apply Maxwell?s Relations to quantify non-measurable thermodynamic properties;
Identify reversibility and spontaneity in changes towards equilibrium.
Describe the physical, structural, and thermodynamic properties of equilibrium phases and phase transformations in single and two-component systems
Apply the Clausius-Clapeyron equation to construct the equilibrium phase diagram in a single-component system
Determine the changes in thermodynamic properties in ideal, non-ideal, dilute, and in regular solutions
Apply the Gibbs Phase Rule in order to set up an engineering system;
Identify and interpret a simple eutectic diagram; identify miscible versus immiscible systems; define the spinodal line
Apply the Lever Rule to determine the phase composition in a multi-phase field;
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