Welcome to ChE 503, an advanced thermodynamics course primarily for chemical engineering graduate students.
The course assumes that you had one prior course in classical thermodynamics.
 

Time and place

There are usually two lectures and a precept per week, on Mondays 11 - 12:20 at Friend Center 111 and on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1:30 - 2:50 in A224 E-Quad (Elgin Seminar Room).   At the precept, we go over lecture material in more detail or go over problems.  

Books

The recommended textbook is J. W. Tester and M. Modell, "Thermodynamics and its Applications," 3d ed., Prentice-Hall (1996). Chapter numbers and homework problems in the course schedule shown on the syllabus pages refer to this book.  See  http://web.mit.edu/testerel/thermo/ for current errata list and answers to selected problems.

Other useful reference books (no need to buy these):

J.M. Prausnitz et al., "Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluid-Phase Equilibria", 2d ed., Prentice-Hall (1986).
D. Chandler, "Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics" Oxford University Press (1987).
H.B. Callen, "Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics," 2d ed., Wiley (1985).

Problem sets

Please bring the completed problem sets as indicated on the schedule. A personal computer may be helpful for arriving to a final numerical solution in some problems.

Grading

The grade for the course will be based on the midterm and final exams (70%) problem sets (25%) and class participation (5%).

Staff

Instructor: Thanos Panagiotopoulos, A-317 E-Quad., x8-4591 (azp@princeton.edu). Office hours: Wed. & Fri. 3-4.
AI: Jonathan Davis, G-109, x8-0206 (jrdavis@princeton.edu). Office hours: TBA.

Web Site

Lecture notes, revised class schedule, problem set solutions and other course-related material will be continuously available from the course web site, http://kea.princeton.edu/ChE503/index.html.  A backup server is also available: http://tilos.princeton.edu/ChE503/index.html.

Tentative Class Syllabus: 01/18/2007