-An Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics
Classical Mechanics: general overview
Classical Thermodynamics and macroscopic aspects: general overview
Quantum Mechanics: general overview
A molecular approach to thermal energy
Boltzmann distribution
Partition Function
Contribution of thermal energy in statistical mechanics
kT term and its importance
Thermal capacity: Einstein and Debye models.
Internal Energy and Enthalpy starting from the Partition Function
- Bonds in solids
Fermi gas of electrons, Ionic crystals, Electrostatic energy, and Madelung factor, Covalent bon, metallic bond, hydrogen bond and atomic radius.
-Electric properties in the solids.
OA theory, OM theory, valence bond theory, band theory, Fermi-Dirca distribution, applications
- Crystalline structure.
Crystal lattice, orientations of atoms, direction planes indices, crystal lattice parameters.
- Diffraction in crystals and experimental method for X-ray diffraction
- Phase diagrams and thermodynamic equilibrium
single and bi- component
equilibrium in heterogenous systems
Phase diagrams for binary systems
-Diffusion
Equations and mechanisms