Description
Maintaining the substance that made Introduction to the Thermodynamic of Materials a perennial best seller for decades, this Sixth Edition is updated to reflect the broadening field of materials science and engineering. The new edition is reorganized into three major sections to align the book for practical coursework, with the first (Thermodynamic Principles) and second (Phase Equilibria) sections aimed at use in a one semester undergraduate course. The third section (Reactions and Transformations) can be used in other courses of the curriculum that deal with oxidation, energy, and phase transformations. The book is updated to include the role of work terms other than PV work (e.g., magnetic work) along with their attendant aspects of entropy, Maxwell equations, and the role of such applied fields on phase diagrams. There is also an increased emphasis on the thermodynamics of phase transformations and the Sixth Edition features an entirely new chapter 15 that links specific thermodynamic applications to the study of phase transformations. The book also features more than 50 new end of chapter problems and more than 50 new figures.
Table of Contents
I Thermodynamic Principles
1 Introduction and Definition of Terms
2 The First Law of Thermodynamics
3 The Second Law of Thermodynamics
4 The Statistical Interpretation of Entropy
5 The Fundamental Equations and Their Relationships
6 Heat Capacity, Enthalpy, Entropy, and the Third Law of Thermodynamics
II Phase Equilibria
7 Phase Equilibrium in a One-Component System
8 The Behavior of Gases
9 The Behavior of Solutions
10 Gibbs Free Energy Composition and Phase Diagrams of Binary Systems
III. Reactions and Transformations of Phases
11 Reactions Involving Gases
12 Reactions Involving Pure Condensed Phases and a Gaseous Phase
13 Reaction Equilibria in Systems Containing Components in Condensed Solution
14 Electrochemistry
15 Thermodynamics and Phase Transformations
Appendices
A. Selected Thermodynamic and Thermochemical Data
B. Exact Differential Equations
C. The Generation of Additional Thermodynamic Potentials as Legendre Transformations
Nomenclature
Answers
Index
