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Advanced chemical thermodynamics

 

Chemical thermodynamics (overview)

Systems, surroundings and boundaries

Thermodynamic property, state, equilibrium and process

Reversible and irreversible thermodynamic processes

Reversible work in thermodynamics

Reversible isothermal process

Reversible isobaric process

Reversible isochoric process

Irreversible work

Partial derivatives, the total differential and the multivariable chain rule

Exact and inexact differentials

State function

Path function

Zeroth law of thermodynamics

First law of thermodynamics

Enthalpy

Heat capacity

Equipartition theorem

Equipartition theorem: Translational motion

Equipartition theorem: Rotational motion

Equipartition theorem: Vibrational motion

Equipartition theorem: Internal energy and heat capacity

Kirchhoff’s law

Using Kirchhoff’s law to determine the standard enthalpy change of reaction at 298K

Using Kirchhoff’s law to determine the standard enthalpy change of ionisation and electron gain

Reversible adiabatic processes

The Joule experiment

The Joule-Thompson experiment

Applications of the Joule-Thomson effect

Line integral

Polytropic processes

Second law of thermodynamics (overview)

Carnot cycle

Carnot heat pump

Carnot’s theorem

Entropy

Spontaneous process

Entropy of the universe

Clausius inequality

Gibbs energy

Chemical potential

Third law of thermodynamics

Absolute entropy

Boltzmann distribution

Statistical entropy

 

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