MSE 401

Credit: 4 hours.

Basic thermodynamic principles including energy, entropy, and free energy; macroscopic properties of hard and soft materials systems, such as equilibrium states, phases, and phase transitions. Application of phase diagrams. Statistical interpretation of thermodynamics on the atomistic level. Credit is not given for both MSE 401 and any of CHEM 442, CHEM 444, PHYS 427. Prerequisite: MSE 201 or MSE 280; credit or concurrent registration in MATH 285.