Course Goals:

• To understand the most important physical quantities that characterize the bulk properties of (macroscopic) matter and the relationships between these quantities.
• To understand the laws of thermodynamics and how they regulate macroscopic physical processes, with special attention to energy, volume, and particle exchange between systems and to transformations of energy.
• To develop tools for characterizing bulk matter at the macroscopic level.
• To understand the relationship between the microscopic view (statistical mechanics) and the macroscopic view (thermodynamics) of matter.