course:

Thermodynamics and Kinetics I+II

type:

lecture + exercises

lecturer:

Weppner

semester:

WS

hours per week:

3 each semester

ECTS credits:

4 each semester

content:

• Phenomenological Thermodynamics: Gibbs' Representation, Multicomponent- / Multiphase Systems, Thermodynamics of Disorder
• Determination of Thermodynamic Data: Calorimetry, Multiphase Equilibria, EMF-Methods, Heat Capacities, Examples
• Statistical Thermodynamics: Boltzmann-, Fermi-Dirac- and Bose Einstein-Statistics, Determination of Phenomenological Parameters
• Phase Diagrams:
  One- and Two-Component Systems, Determination of Phase Equilibrium Diagrams, Phase Analysis, Multinary Systems, Non-Equilibrium Phases
• Fundamentals of Irreversible Thermodynamics:
  Onsager-Relations, Matter in Temperature Gradients
• Solid State Kinetics:
  Atomic Motion, Transport in Electrical and Chemical Potential Gradients, Component, Tracer- and Chemical Diffusion, Onsager-Relations, Sintering
• Solid State Reactions:
  Nucleation Growth, Transformation Kinetics, Chemical and Electrochemical, Corrosion
   

literature:

• D.V. Ragone, Thermodynamics of Materials, Wiley & Sons, New York, 1995
• O. Kubaschewski, C.B.Alcock, P.J. Spencer, Materials Thermochemistry, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1993
• P.W. Atkins, Physical Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992
• C.G. Bergeron, S.H. Risbud, Introduction to Phase Equilibria in Ceramics
• H. Schmalzried, Chemical Kinetics of Solids, VCH, Weinheim, 1995
• H. Rickert, Electrochemistry of Solids, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1982
   

recommended:

Master 1^st and 2^nd semester

examination:

written