The Second & Third Laws
A 21-module path through the second & third laws, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Spontaneity and the Direction of Change
- The Dispersal of Energy and Matter
- Heat Engines and Thermal Reservoirs
- Kelvin and Clausius Statements of the Second Law
- The Carnot Cycle
- Carnot's Theorem and Engine Efficiency
- The Thermodynamic Temperature Scale
- The Clausius Inequality
- Thermodynamic Definition of Entropy
- Entropy as a State Function
- Entropy and the Direction of Spontaneous Change
- Entropy Change of the Surroundings
- Total Entropy and the Second Law Criterion
- Entropy Change on Heating
- Entropy of Phase Transitions
- Entropy of Ideal-Gas Expansion
- Entropy of Mixing of Ideal Gases
- Statistical vs Thermodynamic Entropy
- The Third Law of Thermodynamics
- Absolute Entropies from Calorimetry
- Residual Entropy