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Energy and entropy: equilibrium to stationary states

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The First Law of Thermodynamics.- First Law Formalism.- First Law of Thermodynamics: Applications.- Entropy and the Second Law: Thermodynamics Viewpoint.- The Nature of Entropy.- Free Energy.- Thermodynamic Equations of State.- Chemical Potentials in Solution.- Phase Equilibria and Colligative Properties.- The Foundations of Statistical Thermodynamics.- Applied Boltzmann Statistics.- Multi-state Systems.- Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions.- Interactions.- Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemical Kinetics.- Irreversible Thermodynamics and Transport.- Stationary State Thermodynamics.

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Key concepts: Entropy (arrow of time), Mathematical economics, Statistical physics, Maximum entropy thermodynamics, Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory, Physics, Mathematics, Thermodynamics