This collection is based on MIT OCW Course 5.60 offered in Spring 2008. Instructors : Moungi Bawendi, Keith Nelson.This subject deals primarily with equilibrium properties of macroscopic systems, basic thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium of reactions in gas and solution phase, and rates of chemical reactions.Topics covered include State of a system, 0th law, equation of state, Work, heat, first law, Internal energy, expansion work, Enthalpy, Adiabatic changes, Thermochemistry, Calorimetry, Second law, Entropy and the Clausius inequality, Entropy and irreversibility, Fundamental equation, absolute S, third law, Criteria for spontaneous change, Gibbs free energy, Multicomponent systems, chemical potential, Chemical equilibrium, Temperature, pressure and Kp, Equilibrium: application to drug design,Phase equilibria - one component, Clausius-Clapeyron equation, Phase equilibria - two components, Ideal solutions, Non-ideal solutions, Colligative properties, Introduction to statistical mechanics, Partition function (q) - large N limit, Partition function (Q) - many particles, Statistical mechanics and discrete energy levels, Model systems, Applications: chemical and phase equilibria, Introduction to reaction kinetics,...

An integrated collection in the area of combustion instability is presented. Lord Rayleigh [1] noted that the generation of thermoacoustic oscillations in combustion systems was dependant on the relative phasing between pressure and heat release oscillations. When the heat release oscillations and pressure oscillations are sufficiently in phase with one another, small amplitude pressure perturbations rapidly grow into large amplitude pressure waves. Various experiments monitotring pressure and heat release in laboratory combustors and industrial burners have confirmed the applicability of this criterion [2]. For the particular case of combustion inside a dump combustor, coherent vorical structures shed from the dump plane have been recognized as a potential source of unsteady heat release [3-6] which could couple with pressure oscillations inside the combustor leading to instability. Excess unburnt fuel trapped inside the vortex core could be ignited when the vortex, convecting away from the dump plane, strikes against the walls of the combustor or impinges on the exit nozzle. This sudden combustion of unburnt fuel leads to the generation of a very well defined heat release oscillation whose periodicity...

This collection is based on Prof Richard McKenzie and Prof Dwight Lee's book 'Microeconomics for MBAs' and covers some of the most important foundation materials needed to be mastered by MBAs.This is the first textbook in microeconomics written exclusively for MBA students. McKenzie/Lee minimizes attention to mathematics and maximizes attention to intuitive economic thinking. The text is structured clearly and accessibly: Part I of each chapter outlines the basic theory and Part II applies this basic theory to management issues. 'Perspective' sections in each chapter provide a new line of argument or different take on a business or policy issue, and carefully chosen topics and review questions are designed to spark lively and instructive debates. The accompanying DVD contains modules of Professor McKenzie talking informally with students, and elucidates complex lines of argument as well as acting as a revision aid. Throughout the book, McKenzie and Lee aim to infuse students with the economic way of thinking in the context of a host of problems that MBA students, as future managers of real-world firms, will find relevant to their career goals.

Topics Include : Prisoner's Dilemma, Comparative Advantage, Demand, Supply, ...