Definitions and Basic Principles

• System and its Surroundings

• Path Functions
  • Heat
  • Work

• State Functions
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Potential Energy
  • Thermal Energy
  • Internal Energy
  • Chemical energy

Principles of Thermodynamics

• First Law of Thermodynamics
• Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Third Law of Thermodynamics

• Calorimetry
  • Constant Volume (Bomb) calorimetry
  • Constant Pressure calorimetry
• Heat capacity
• Delta H and Temperature
• Hess' Law
• Energy Level Diagrams
• Gas Expansion

Enthalpy

• Heat of Reaction
• Standard Enthalpy of Formation
• Enthalpy Of Vaporization

Fuels

• Fossil Fuels
• Solar Energy
• Hydrogen Fuel

Outside Links

• Barrow, Gordon M. "Thermodynamics should be built on energy-not on heat and work." J. Chem. Educ. 1988: 65, 122.
• Brouwer, Henry. "Small-scale thermochemistry experiment (ML)." J. Chem. Educ. 1991:68, A178.
• King, Edward L. "Thermodynamics of the thermal decomposition of water by closed chemical cycles." J. Chem. Educ. 1981, 58, 975.
• Peckham, G. D., McNaught, Ian J. 'Heat and work are not "forms of energy".' J. Chem. Educ. 1993: 70, 103.

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