Thermodynamics : four laws that move the universe.
Record details
- ISBN: 1629970549
- ISBN: 9781629970547
- Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (720 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 161 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- Producer: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, © 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | 24 lectures (approximately 30 minutes each) on 4 DVDs. Course No. 1291. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Course guidebook includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1: 1. Thermodynamics: what's under the hood -- 2. Variables and the flow of energy -- 3. Temperature: thermodynamics' first force -- 4. Salt, soup, energy, and entropy -- 5. The ideal gas law and a piston -- 6. Energy transferred and conserved -- disc 2: 7. Work-heat equivalence -- 8. Entropy: the arrow of time -- 9. The chemical potential -- 10. Enthalpy, free energy, and equilibrium -- 11. Mixing and osmotic pressure -- 12. How materials hold heat -- disc 3: 13. How materials respond to heat -- 14. Phases of matter: gas, liquid, solid -- 15. Phase diagrams: ultimate materials maps -- 16. Properties of phases -- 17. To mix, or not to mix? -- disc 4: 19. The Carnot engine and limits of efficiency -- 20. More engines: materials at work -- 21. The electrochemical potential -- 22. Chemical reactions: getting to equilibrium -- 23. The chemical reaction quotient -- 24. The greates processes in the world. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer: Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
System Details Note: | DVD. |
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Subject: | Thermodynamics. |
Genre: | Lectures. Educational films. Nonfiction films. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Nazareth. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | DVD 536.7 THE 2014 (Text) | 31001101930486 | DVD Adult | Available | - |