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CHEM_ENG 330: Molecular Engineering and Statistical Mechanics

This course is not currently offered.

Description

Basic statistical mechanics. Applications to thermodynamics, kinetics, and transport of various engineering systems, including frontier areas of chemical and biological engineering. Not open to students who have taken 406, CHEM 342-3, or PHYSICS 332. 

Prerequisite: 211 or another thermodynamics course; courses in probability and statistics, heat transfer, or other transport recommended.

Textbook
Molecular Driving Forces:  Statistical Thermodynamics in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Nanoscience
2^nd edition
Ken A. Dill and Sarina Bromberg
Garland Science:  New York, 2011