Advanced Materials Science

Defining metastability with examples in various materials like diamond, chocolate, and titanium oxide

How to construct these diagrams using both intensive and extensive variable

How the Clausius-Clapeyron equation describes the slope of coexistence lines

How to define thermodynamic systems and boundary conditions using either intensive or extensive variables

How entropy maximization leads to equilibrium

At equilibrium in a closed system, entropy is maximized by redistributing extensive quantities to equalize intensive quantities

The historical development of the concept of entropy

Different forms of work done on materials

The concept of energy in materials from a thermodynamics perspective