2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Physical Chemistry (Thermodynamics)
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Yuta Nabae
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- MAT.P204
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course deals with various physicochemical states and phenomena such as phase equilibrium, phase transition, mixture, solution, and chemical equilibrium based on chemical potentials.
Course description and aims
The students acquire the skills to thermodynamically describe various physicochemical states and phenomena such as phase equilibrium, phase transition, mixture, solution, and chemical equilibrium using chemical potentials.
Keywords
Chemical potential, Chemical equilibrium, Phase equilibrium, Phase transition, Mixing, Solution
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Lectures and exercises will be conducted in a balanced manner.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | The thermodynamic description of the Gibbs free energy, enthalpy, entropy and Carnot cycle | Understand the the Gibbs free energy, enthalpy, entropy and Carnot cycle. |
| Class 2 | The thermodynamic description of pure materials | Understand the thermodynamic description of pure materials |
| Class 3 | Phase diagrams of binary and ternary systems | Understand the interpretation of phase diagrams of binary and ternary systems and lever rule. |
| Class 4 | The properties of mixtures and solutions | Understand the thermodynamics description of mixtures, solutions and colligative properties. |
| Class 5 | Chemical equilibrium and equilibrium electrochemistry | Understand the reaction Gibbs energy, thermodynamic equilibrium constant and Le Chatelier's principle. |
| Class 6 | Kinetics and thermodynamics | Understand thermodynamic control, kinetic control, Horiuchi Polanyi principal, Butler-Volmer equation |
| Class 7 | Exam | Exam |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Peter Atkins, Julio de Paula, Atkins' Physical Chemistry, first volume, 10th Ed., Chapters 1-6, Tokyo: Tokyo Kagaku Dojin, ISBN: 978-4-8079-0908-7
Reference books, course materials, etc.
渡辺 啓 『演習 化学熱力学[新訂版]』, サイエンス社, ISBN: 4-7819-1042-4
Materials used in class can be found on T2SCHOLA.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Evaluation will be done based on the term-end exam. Exercises in each class may be considerd.
Related courses
- MAT.P307： Electrochemistry (P)
- MAT.P308： Interface Chemistry (P)
- MAT.A204 ： Thermodynamics of Materials
Prerequisites
MAT.A204 ： Thermodynamics of Materials should have been completed.