Advanced Thermodynamics of Materials MSE 532 (Graduate)

Computational Labs

G(T,P) Phase Diagram with Halfspace Intersections (Instructions)

G(T,P) Phase Diagram with Halfspace Intersections (Python Lab)

G(T,x) Phase Diagrams with Convex Hulls (Python Lab)

Ternary Phase Diagram Lab in Virtual Reality (Instructions)

Previous Exams

Classical Thermodynamics

Exam 1 2020

Exam 1 2020 Solutions

Exam 1 2021

Exam 1 2021 Solutions

Exam 1 2023

Exam 1 2023 Solutions

Exam 1 2024

Exam 1 2024 Solutions

Statistical Mechanics

Exam 2 2020

Exam 2 2020 Solutions

Exam 2 2021

Exam 2 2021 Solutions

Exam 2 2023

Exam 2 2023 Solutions

Exam 2 2024

Solution Thermodynamics + Phase Diagrams

Exam 3 2020

Exam 3 2020 Solutions

Exam 3 2021

Exam 3 2021 Solutions

Exam 3 2023

Exam 3 2023 Solutions

Exam 3 2024

Pre-Recorded Lectures (2020)

Lecture 1: All Materials Have Energy

Lecture 2: Pushing on a material (Conjugate Variables)

Lecture 3: How do you come up with an idea like entropy?

Lecture 4: Second Law of Thermodynamics

Lecture 5: Geometry of Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Lecture 6: You define the system! (Legendre Transformations)

Lecture 7 P1: Clausius Clapeyron

Lecture 7 P2: Generalized Phase Diagrams

Lecture 8: Thermodynamic Metastability

NO LECTURE 9: Mistake on my part, since I doublecounted 7

Lecture 10: Thermodynamic Partial Derivatives

Missing Part from Lecture 10, played @ 24:07

Lecture 11: Intro to StatMech

Lecture 12: Canonical Ensemble

Lecture 13: Insights from Stat Mech

Lecture 14: Generalized Ensembles

Lecture 15: Fluctuations

Lecture 16: Fermions and Bosons

Lecture 17: Ideal Gas

Lecture 18: Lattice Vibrations

Lecture 19: Solution Theory 1

Lecture 20: Solution Theory 2

Lecture 21: Regular Solution Model

Lecture 22: Phase Diagrams

Lecture 23: Applied Phase Diagrams