Materials Chemistry II

Materials Chemistry II is an undergraduate/graduate course on thermodynamics at RWTH Aachen University for students in the fields of studies:

• Werkstoffingenieurwesen, B.Sc.
• Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen (FR: Werkstoff- und Prozesstechnik), B.Sc.
• Technik-Kommunikation, B.Sc.
• Metallurgical Engineering, M.Sc.

The course is offered during the winter term. Lectures are given by Prof. Schneider, Dr. Music and Prof. Zander (KKS). Students may participate in a midterm exam which allows them to collect bonus points for the final exam (2 in March/April, 1 in September). The course contains the following topics:

• Second law of thermodynamics
• Physical transformations of pure substances
• Binary mixtures and their models
• Phase stability and phase separation
• Phase diagrams
• Statistical thermodynamics
• Boltzmann and Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions
• Applications of kinetic theory
• Chemical kinetics