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Calendar

Included below is the calendar for the kinetics portion of 3.205, typically taught in a six-week period in the second half of the semester. The thermodynamics segment of 3.205, taught in the first half of the semester, has not yet been incorporated into OCW.


LEC #TOPICS
1Fields and Gradients, Fluxes, Continuity Equation
2Entropy Production, Conjugate Driving Forces
3Mass Diffusion in a Continuum, Diffusion Coefficients
4Solutions to the Diffusion/Heat Equation, Atomistic Mechanisms of Diffusion
5Diffusion in Ionic Crystals
6Role of Microstructure in Diffusion; Short Circuits
7Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation
8Diffusional Growth, The "Moving Boundary" Problem
9Solidification
10Spinodal Decomposition
11Particle Coarsening
12Sintering

 








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