Thermodynamics : : Four Laws That Move the Universe

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24 lectures (approximately 30 minutes each) on 4 DVDs.
Course No. 1291.
Disc 1: 1. Thermodynamics: what's under the hood -- 2. Variables and the flow of energy -- 3. Temperature: thermodynamics' first force -- 4. Salt, soup, energy, and entropy -- 5. The ideal gas law and a piston -- 6. Energy transferred and conserved -- disc 2: 7. Work-heat equivalence -- 8. Entropy: the arrow of time -- 9. The chemical potential -- 10. Enthalpy, free energy, and equilibrium -- 11. Mixing and osmotic pressure -- 12. How materials hold heat -- disc 3: 13. How materials respond to heat -- 14. Phases of matter: gas, liquid, solid -- 15. Phase diagrams: ultimate materials maps -- 16. Properties of phases -- 17. To mix, or not to mix? -- disc 4: 19. The Carnot engine and limits of efficiency -- 20. More engines: materials at work -- 21. The electrochemical potential -- 22. Chemical reactions: getting to equilibrium -- 23. The chemical reaction quotient -- 24. The greates processes in the world.
Lecturer: Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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