This course covers the fundamental concepts of temperature, work, and heat. Specific topics include the Laws of Thermodynamics, gas laws, entropy, conditions of equilibrium, gas cycles, the Maxwell relations, chemical potential and equilibrium, Gibbs' phase rule, ClapeyronClausius equation, kinetic-molecular theory, and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. This course does not include a lab period.
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