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      • Royal Society of Chemistry
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        • MRS Materials Connect Blogs
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          • Xu Interview
          • The Birth of MXene
          • Worsley Interview
      • Miscellaneous Collection >
        • Blocking Electromagnetic Interference with MXenes
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      • Wiley期刊封面赏析
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​Teaching Resources


Thermodynamics


(UCSC Chem 163B)

Chem 163B is an upper-division class for juniors and seniors with chemistry and biochemistry majors. This course introduces fundamentals of thermodynamics and their applications to chemical and biochemical equilibria. Detailed contents are listed below: (slides were used in Winter, 2015)
Week #1: Kick-off and Review on Partial Derivatives
Week #2: Gas, Internal Energy, Heat and Work
Week #3: Enthalpy and Equation Derivations
Week #4: Dependence of Internal Energy and Enthalpy
Week #5: Thermochemistry
Week #6: Second Law, Carnot Cycle and Entropy
Week #7: Maxwell Relations, Absolute Mixing Entropy, and Free Energy
Week #8: Mixing Entropy and Gibbs Free Energy of Chemical Reactions
Week #9: Real Gases and One-component Phase Diagrams
Week #10: Surface Tension and Mixing of Ideal Solutions
Week #11: Electrochemistry and Practice Problems
Final Week: Final Review (student version)

Supplementary Handouts:
Week #3, Week #4, Week #6, Week #10, and Week #11

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