Lectures List:
Lecture 1, variables, Gibbs phase rule, and laws of thermodynamics.
Lecture 2, work and processes.
Lecture 3, Gibbsien equations.
Lecture 4, Legendre transforms.
Lecture 5, mathematical tools, the partial derivative game.
Lecture 6, process evlauation residual functions.
Lecture 7, introduction to statistical mechanics.
Lecture 8, quantum mechanics.
Lecture 9, statistics and ensembles.
Lecture 10, ensembles and partition functions.
Lecture 11, classical and semi-classical partition functions.
Lecture 12, molecular partition functions. Ideal gases.
Lecture 13, example calculations.
Lecture 14, chemical equilibrium constants and nonideal behavior.
Lecture 15, intermolecular potentials
Lecture 16, virial coefficients, equations of state, and the pair correlation function.
Applet for plotting radial distribution functions.
Lecture 17, van der Waals partition function, phase behavior of fluids.
Lecture 18, conformal solutions theory and generalized cubic EOS
Lecture 19, conformal solution theory for pure fluids and mixtures.
Lecture 20, ideal solutions and partial molar properties.
Lecture 21, fugacity and fugacity coefficients, activity coefficients.
Lecture 22, van der Waals partition functions for mixture, local compositions, activity coefficient models.
Molecular simulation code written as a Java Applet.
Research Project Guidelines.
Example of how to use Excel to solve systems of equations.
2D linear interpolation worksheet.
Introduction to Matlab.
van der Waals EOS with Matlab here.
Matlab Example 1.
Matlab Example 2.
http://puccini.che.pitt.edu/~karlj/Classes/CHE2101/
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