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MSE 260 - Materials Engineering Thermodynamics

4 Credit Hours
Thermodynamic laws, entropy, internal energy, and state functions. One-component and two-component phase equilibria. Characteristics of small and large molecular systems. Surface energy, elasticity, and material defects.

Contact Hour Distribution: 3 hours and 1 recitation.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): MSE 201  or MSE 207 ; EF 152*  or EF 158* .
(RE) Corequisite(s): MSE 110  or MSE 117  or CHEM 132*  and CHEM 133* ; or CHEM 138* ; and MATH 241  or MATH 247 .


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