Thermodynamic of Materials - MATS1282

Faculty: Faculty of Science

School: School of Materials Science and Engineering

Course Outline: http://www.materials.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requiste/s: CHEM2718

Excluded: MATS1112, MATS2008

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Thermodynamic functions and systems - PVT system, stretched wire, paramagnetic solid, and electrolytic cell. The first and second thermodynamic laws in application to materials engineering. Phase transitions of first and second order. Ellingham and Pourbaix diagrams. Thermodynamics of solutions. Gibbs-Duhem equation. Thermodynamic activity. Perfect and regular metallic solutions. Thermodynamic stability. Calculation of phase diagrams. Calculation of chemical equilibria in complex systems.