The First Law & Thermochemistry
A 25-module path through the first law & thermochemistry, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Systems, Surroundings, and Boundaries
- State Functions and Path Functions
- Work, Heat, and Internal Energy
- The First Law of Thermodynamics
- Pressure-Volume Work
- Reversible vs Irreversible Processes
- Maximum Work and Reversibility
- Isothermal Expansion of an Ideal Gas
- Enthalpy Definition and Motivation
- Heat at Constant Pressure and Constant Volume
- Heat Capacity at Constant Volume
- Heat Capacity at Constant Pressure
- Relation Between Cp and Cv
- Adiabatic Processes for an Ideal Gas
- Adiabatic Reversible pVT Relations
- Joule Expansion
- Joule-Thomson Expansion
- Inversion Temperature and Gas Liquefaction
- Standard States and Standard Enthalpy Changes
- Standard Enthalpy of Formation
- Hess's Law
- Bond Enthalpies
- Born-Haber Cycle
- Calorimetry
- Kirchhoff's Law