Phase transitions - 2
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Date: 07/10/2022

Pippard, in his wonderful book "Elements of Classical Thermodynamics", states that "the function of thermodynamics is to link together the many observable variables so that they can all be seen to be a consequence of a few". In this lecture, I begin with this quote and explain with an example calculation, how a lot of variables can be expressed in terms of a few thermodynamic quantities to enable the minimisation of experiments.

We cover the meaning of basic thermodynamic quantities such as internal energy, enthalpy and entropy, with a derivation of configurational entropy of mixing. 

Download lecture notes from:
https://www.phase-trans.msm.cam.ac.uk/2022/EMS523U_book.pdf