Thermodynamics : four laws that move the universe

Grossman, Jeffrey C., (teacher., Teacher). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Summary: What is heat? What is temperature? What is energy? What is time? When we look beneath the surface of these everyday terms to learn how scientists understand them, we encounter a realm of fundamental processes that rule the universe.

Item details

ISBN: 1629970549
ISBN: 9781629970547
Physical Description: videodisc
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 161 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, ©2014.
Producer: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, ©2014.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	24 lectures (approximately 30 minutes each) on 4 DVDs. Course Number 1291.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Disc 1: 1. Thermodynamics: what's under the hood -- 2. Variables and the flow of energy -- 3. Temperature: thermodynamics' first force -- 4. Salt, soup, energy, and entropy -- 5. The ideal gas law and a piston -- 6. Energy transferred and conserved -- disc 2: 7. Work-heat equivalence -- 8. Entropy: the arrow of time -- 9. The chemical potential -- 10. Enthalpy, free energy, and equilibrium -- 11. Mixing and osmotic pressure -- 12. How materials hold heat -- disc 3: 13. How materials respond to heat -- 14. Phases of matter: gas, liquid, solid -- 15. Phase diagrams: ultimate materials maps -- 16. Properties of phases -- 17. To mix, or not to mix? -- 18. Melting and freezing of mixtures --disc 4: 19. The Carnot engine and limits of efficiency -- 20. More engines: materials at work -- 21. The electrochemical potential -- 22. Chemical reactions: getting to equilibrium -- 23. The chemical reaction quotient -- 24. The greatest processes in the world.
Participant or Performer Note:	Lecturer: Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
System Details Note:	DVD.