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3.20 Materials at Equilibrium (SMA 5111) | Materials Science and Engineering

3.20 Materials at Equilibrium (SMA 5111) | Materials Science and Engineering

Material covered in this course includes the following topics: Laws of thermodynamics: general formulation and applications to mechanical, electromagnetic and electrochemical systems, solutions, and phase diagrams Computation of phase diagrams Statistical thermodynamics and relation between microscopic and macroscopic properties, including ensembles, gases, crystal lattices, phase transitions Applications to phase stability and properties of mixtures Computational modeling Interfaces This course was also taught as part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) programme as course number SMA 5111 (Materials at Equilibrium).

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