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Thermodynamics : four laws that move the universe.

Grossman, Jeffrey C., (teacher.). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

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.
Subject: Thermodynamics.
Genre: Lectures.
Educational films.
Nonfiction films.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Nazareth. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity DVD 536.7 THE 2014 (Text) 31001101930486 DVD Adult Available -


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