Thermodynamics

Introduction

Prof. Lorena Romero Salazar

August 2022
Variables
Thermodynamics

https://www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary/thermodynamics
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/thermodynamics

Oxford Dictionary
In a Spanish dictionary we would find:

https://www.rae.es/
What do you think when
you hear the word
“Energy” ?
Human
purposes?
Nature?

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 SO….

CAN YOU LIMIT THE POSSIBLE

APPLICATIONS OF
THERMODYNAMICS???
Boundaries
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Boundaries
 Variables

Intensive Properties
• bulk properties
• Independent of the size of a system

Examples:

Extensive Properties
• Depends on the size of a system
• It is additive for subsystems

Examples:
https://www.thoughtco.com/intensive-vs-extensive-
properties-604133
Characterizing a
system
 WHAT IS A MOLE???????

“Expresses the amount of a

chemical substance that
contains as many elementary
entities as there are atoms in
12 grams of pure carbon-12.
A mole is the SI base unit for
amount of substance or
chemical amount.”

http://www.objetos.unam.mx/quimica/mol/
https://iupac.org/what-we-do/periodic-
table-of-elements/

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PARTICLES VS MOLES

https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00543
 HOW MANY MOLES CAN YOU FIND IN 50g OF C?

HOW MANY MOLES CAN YOU FIND IN 19LT OF H2O?

HOMEWORK

HOW MANY MOLES CAN YOU FIND IN 30g OF

AMONIUM NH4?
STANDARD
 STP

Abbreviation for standard temperature (273.15 K or 0 ⚬C)

and pressure (105 Pa); usually employed in reporting gas
volumes. Note that flow meters calibrated in standard gas
volumes per unit time often refer to volumes at 25 ⚬C,
not 0 ⚬C.

<<PAC, 1990, 62, 2167. (Glossary of atmospheric

chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990)) on page
2217>>

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