Prerequisites: graduate standing in Materials Science and Engineering or consent of instructor

Description: Covers the laws of thermodynamics and fundamental equations for multi-component elastic solids, electromagnetic media, and equilibrium criteria. Describes applications to solution thermodynamics, point defects in solids, elastic effects, phase diagrams, transitions, and interfaces. Includes nucleation theory, kinetics (diffusion of heat, mass, and charge), and coupled flows.

Credit: Credit is awarded for only one of MSE 201 or MSE 201V.