MT 202: Metallurgical Thermodynamics

Web Resources

Let us first start with online resources (typically courses with names like "metallurgical thermodynamics" or "thermodynamics for materials science") that are directly relevant to this course. If you find other sites which can be added to this list, do please let me know.

Metallurgical Thermodynamics

1. Prof. W. C. Carter's undergrad thermo course at MIT; this course is a part of MIT's open courseware project.
2. Graduate thermo course at MIT in their open courseware project.
3. Prof. Harry Bhadeshia's website. There is a lot of things of interest to us in the page on "Teaching". In particular, check out his lecture notes on "thermodynamics and phase diagrams" and on "kinetics and microstructure modelling", which appear after a bit of scrolling.
4. Course on Defects in Solids by Prof. Helmut Foll of University of Kiel; these pages have interesting stuff on thermodynamics (in particular, check out the section on "chemical potential", discussed by someone trained in the physical sciences!).

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There are several other compilations of web resources on thermodynamics covering many different aspects. These pages listed in these compilations are of a highly variable quality. So, beware!

Other compilations!

1. "Physical Chemistry on the Web", a collection of web resources compiled by Prof. Julio de Paula of Haverford College.
2. Nano, Quantum and Statistical Mechanics, and Thermodynamics: Educational Sites", a collection of web resources compiled by the great people in Thermodynamics Research Laboratory in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

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There is considerable overlap in what we wish to do in our course with quite a bit of what is covered in courses in physical chemistry or chemical engineering. Why, all our principal texts are on "Chemical" equilibrium! (Similarly, some of the basics in our course are also covered in courses in physics and in mechanical engineering). So, approach the following resources specifically for: (a) clarifying some of the concepts we cover (perhaps in a less than satisfactory way) in our course, and (b) looking at the same concepts from the someone else's perspective.

Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

1. Chemistry course at Worcester Polytechnic ; in particular, check out the text Concepts in Chemistry .
2. A "Dynamic Textbook" of Physical Chemistry by Prof. W.R. Salzmann at the University of Arizona.
3. Course website of Prof. David Budil at Northeastern University
4. Notes at Colby College.
5. Prof. Paul Gans at New York University: Physical Chemistry 1 and Physical Chemistry 2.

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