Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Historical Perspective of Thermodynamics -- Chapter 2 Thermodynamics and Feasibililty -- 2.1. What Makes a Reaction Feasible? -- 2.2. Heat and Work - Are They Synonymous? What does Thermodynamics Say? -- 2.3. Heat Engines -- 2.4. Entropy -- 2.5. Linkage between Heat Engines & Chemical Reactions -- 2.6. Entropy and Disorder -- 2.7. Free Energy - The Measure of Feasibility -- 2.8. Terms used in Thermodynamics -- 2.9. Balance of Nature - Is it Really Orderly? -- 2.10. Entropy and the Big Bang -- 2.11. Thermodynamics, Billiards Table and Common Sense -- Chapter 3 Basic Concepts -- 3.1. What is Thermodynamics? -- 3.2. What is a 'System'? -- 3.3. State and Thermodynamic Properties -- 3.4. Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- 3.5. Work - Different Forms -- 3.6. Branches of Thermodynamics -- Chapter 4 Zeroeth Law, First Law and Thermochemistry -- 4.1. Concept of Temperature -- 4.2. Phase Rule -- 4.3. Heat -- 4.4. The First Law of Thermodynamics -- 4.5. Applications of the First Law - Thermochemistry -- Chapter 5 Second Law of Thermodynamics -- 5.1. The Second Law - Different Statements -- 5.2. Carnot's Cycle -- 5.3. Entropy -- Chapter 6 Entropy, Third Law and Feasibility -- 6.1. Entropy -- 6.2. Significance of Entropy -- 6.3. Thermodynamic Temperature Scale -- 6.4. Non-Cyclic Process -- 6.5. Real Process -- 6.6. Entropy Change in Real Process -- 6.7. Process Feasibility -- 6.8. Free Energy -- 6.9 Ellingham Diagram -- 6.10. Third Law -- 6.11. Examples of Alternate Heat Engines -- Chapter 7 Solution Thermodynamics -- 7.1. Chemical Potential, Fugacity and Activity -- 7.2. Raoult's and Henry's Laws -- 7.3. Equilibrium Constant -- 7.4. Entropy Change during Ideal Mixing of Gases -- Chapter 8 Measurement of Thermodynamic Properties and Some Practical Applications -- 8.1. Calorimetry -- 8.2. Activity Measurements.

Chapter 9 Statistical Thermodynamics:An Introduction -- 9.1. Bernoulli's Interpretation -- 9.2. Interpretation of Entropy -- 9.3. Thermodynamic Probability -- 9.4. Ideal Mixing of Gases -- Chapter 10 Reaction Kinetics -- 10.1. Factors Affecting Reaction Rates -- 10.2. Rate Law and Order of Reaction -- 10.3. Birth of the Rate Law or Law of Mass Action -- 10.4. Unimolecular Reaction & First Order Reaction -- 10.5. Decomposition of an Oxide -- 10.6. Temperature Dependence of Velocity Constant: The Arrhenius Equation -- 10.7. Experimental Determination of Activation Energy -- 10.8. Variation of Reaction Rate with Temperature -- 10.9. Role of Diffusion -- 10.10. How Sponge Iron Making is a First Order Reaction? -- Definitions of Selected Terms -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Subject and Key Word Index.