Syllabus

Concept of thermodynamic state, extensive and intensive variables, zeroth Law of
thermodynamics, measurement of temperature, heat and work, internal energy function
and the first law of thermodynamics, ideal gas and gas equations, ideal engine and Carnot
cycle, concepts of entropy and temperature as conjugate pair of variables, second law of
thermodynamics, entropy maximum and energy minimum principles, entropy, multiplicity
and disorder, Maxwell’s demon, applications to pure substances, thermodynamic
potentials, conditions of equilibrium, concepts of stability, Maxwell’s relations, metastable
and unstable equilibrium, open systems, components and phases, Joule-Thomson
expansion, Gibbs-Duhem relations, first order phase transitions and Clausius-Clapeyron
equation, critical phenomena and higher order phase transition, applications for magnetic,
dielectric and superconducting systems, heat engines and black body radiation, chemical
equilibrium and ideal gas reactions, heterogeneous systems, thermodynamics of
irreversible processes, entropy production, kinetic theory of gases, transport phenomena.

Introducing the concept of thermodynamics which is equally essentially to both
scientist and engineers

Understanding the concepts and problem solving

Being a course equally well served both the engineers and scientist, the students should be well placed to take advance level course in their respective departments.

M. W. Zemansky, Heat and Thermodynamics, McGraw-Hill Ltd., 7th Edition , 2007

R. Bowley and M. Sanchez, Introductory Statistical Mechanics, Oxford Press , 2007

H.B. Callen, Thermodynamics and An Introduction to Thermostatistics, John Wiley & Sons 2nd Ed , 2006

D. V. Schroeder, An introduction to Thermal Physics, Addison Wesley , 1999