Thermodynamics in Materials Science is a clear presentation of how thermodynamic data is used to predict the behavior of a wide range of materials, a crucial component in the decision-making process for many materials science and engineering applications.

Features:

• Retains the core principles and strategies for deriving relationships among variables and finding the conditions for equilibrium from the first edition
• Reflects the author's classroom-tested approach to mapping concepts using phenomenological thermodynamics
• Employs a unique approach for deriving relationships between state variables
• Presents strategies for developing the working equations of thermodynamics for systems of systematically increasing complexity

Contents

1. Why Study Thermodynamics?
2. The Structure of Thermodynamics
3. The Laws of Thermodynamics
4. Thermodynamic Variables and Relations
5. Equilibrium in Thermodynamic Systems
6. Statistical Thermodynamics
7. Unary Heterogeneous Systems
8. Multicomponent Homogeneous Nonreacting Systems: Solutions
9. Multicomponent Heterogeneous Systems
10. Thermodynamics of Phase Diagrams
11. Multicomponent Multiphase Reacting Systems
12. Capillarity Effects in Thermodynamics
13. Defects in Crystals
14. Equilibrium in Continuous Systems: Thermodynamic Effects of External Fields
15. Electrochemistry
16. Fundamental Physical Constants and Conversion Factors
17. Properties of Selected Elements
18. Phase Transformations for the Elements
19. Properties of Some Random Solutions
20. Properties of Selected Compounds
21. Interfacial Energies of Selected Elements
22. Electrochemical Series
23. The Carnot Cycle

Index

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