Tel: 973-642-4681

Office: Room 484 Tiernan Hall

• Class will meet on Wednesday from 6:00 to 9:00 PM in Faculty Room 413 (3 Credits)

• Office hour is Wednesday  5:00  to 6:00 PM (or by appointment)

• Class WWW page can be found at http://web.njit.edu/~tyson/mtse602.html (under construction)

• Assignments are due each week at the beginning of class

• Textbook: Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials (4^rd Edition) by D. R. Gaskell
  
• Supplementary Texts:

                    (1) Thermodynamics of Materials Vol Iand II,  by D. V. Ragone (Wiley)

                    (2) Thermal Physics by C. Kittel  and H. Kroemer (2^nd Edition, Freeman) 

                    (3)  Thermodynamics by E. Fermi (Dover)

                    (4)  Physical Chemistry by  R. A. Albert and R. A. Silbey (3^rd Edition, Freeman)

• Study Guides:

                    (1)  Schaum's Outline Series: Thermodynamics (2^nd Edition, McGraw-Hill)

                    (2)  REA's Problem Solvers:  Thermodynamics (REA)

Homework              20%

Exam I                     10% (In-Class Exam)

Midterm Exam        20% (In-Class Exam)

Final Exam             30% (Take-Home exam)

Class Project         20% (Presented on Exam Day)

Class Project Details

                          Write 7 page report (double spaced, not including figures)

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           Week  1                   Chapter 1:  Introduction and Definition of Terms

                                             Chapter 2:  The First Law of Thermodynamics

           Week  2                     Chapter 3:  The Second Law of Thermodynamics

           Week  3                     Chapter 4:  The Statistical Interpretation of Entropy

           Week  4                      Chapter 5:  Auxiliary Functions 

                                               Exam I           

           Week 5                     Chapter 6:  Heat Capacity Enthalpy, Entropy and the Third Law of Thermodynamics

           Week  6                     Chapter 7: Phase Equilibrium in a One-Component System

            Week  7                    Review

            Week  8                    Midterm Exam

            Week  9                   Chapter 8: The Behavior of Gases

           Week  10                  Chapter 9: The Behavior of Solutions

             Week 11                Chapter 10: Gibbs Free Energy- Composition and Phase Diagram of Binary Systems

             Week 12                 Chapter 11: Reactions Involving Gases

            Week  13                 Chapter 12:  Reactions Involving Pure Condensed Phases and a Gaseous Phase            

            Week  13                 Chapter 13:  Reaction Equilibria in Systems Containing Components in Condensed Solution         

                                            Final Exam and Project