Download or read book Equilibrium Between Phases of Matter written by H.A.J. Oonk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of this work is organized in three levels, so that the portion and importance of thermodynamics and mathematics increase from level to level. The ground level shows that basics of phase equilibria can be understood without thermodynamics provided the concept of chemical potential is introduced early. The intermediate level introduces thermodynamics, culminating in the Gibbs energy as the arbiter for equilibrium. At the third level the accent is on binary systems, where one or more phases are solutions of the components. Priority is given throughout to the thermodynamic assessment of experimental data. 200 exercises are included with solutions.