Environmental Thermodynamics

This course will introduce the properties of energy in its various forms as well as other thermodynamic properties of systems from both macroscopic and microscopic viewpoints. Course topics include thermal equilibrium, equivalence of heat and work, laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic potentials, entropy, phase changes, adiabatic lapse rate, heat engines, Carnot cycles, efficiency, equations of state, van der Waals fluids, fundamentals of statistical mechanics, equipartition, ensemble averaging, Boltzmann statistics, interacting systems, and chemical thermodynamics.