Course title
環境資源熱力学   [Thermodynamics for Environmental Science]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 2  Semester 1st 
Course type 1st  Course code 01EN2107
Instructor(s)
四方 俊幸   [SHIKATA Toshiyuki]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
Using thermodynamic potential functions such as Helmholtz and Gibbs energies, which have been introduced in Physical Chemistry A, spontaneous processes, which nature chooses, can be determined in all the physicochemical processes. For example, phase transition and chemical reactions occur along processes decreasing these thermodynamic potential functions. Moreover, colligative properties of solution, such as well-known melting point depression and boiling point elevation phenomena, can be quantitatively explained by using the thermodynamic potentials. This course is the most primitive fundamental of all the courses of environmental and natural resource since.
Expected Learning
Students learn the fact that all the physicochemical processes are controlled by thermodynamic potential functions.
Course schedule
1) Review of the definitions of thermodynamics potentials
2) Definition of chemical potential
3) Physical meanings of chemical potential
4) Determination of thermodynamical equilibrium
5) Phase transition
6) Phase diagram and phase boundaries
7) Clapeyron equation
8) Phase equilibrium of multi-component systems (Gibbs' phase rule)
9) application of Gibbs' phase rule
10) thermodynamics of mixing
11) Chemical potential of solution
12) Colligative properties of solution 1 (boiling point elevation and melting point depression)
13) Colligative properties of solution 2 (osmotic pressure)
14) Thermodynamics of chemical reactions
15) Examination
Prerequisites
In addition to the 30 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University and using the lecture handouts as well as the references.
Required Text(s) and Materials
References
Assessment/Grading
Homework (60%) and an examination (40%)
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Office hours
Office hours will be announced in the first class.
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Lecture Language
Japanese
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3/12/2019 1:24:55 PM