Included below is the calendar for the kinetics portion of 3.205, typically taught in a six-week period in the second half of the semester. The thermodynamics segment of 3.205, taught in the first half of the semester, has not yet been incorporated into OCW.
Course calender.| LEC # | TOPICS |
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| 1 | Fields and Gradients, Fluxes, Continuity Equation |
| 2 | Entropy Production, Conjugate Driving Forces |
| 3 | Mass Diffusion in a Continuum, Diffusion Coefficients |
| 4 | Solutions to the Diffusion/Heat Equation, Atomistic Mechanisms of Diffusion |
| 5 | Diffusion in Ionic Crystals |
| 6 | Role of Microstructure in Diffusion; Short Circuits |
| 7 | Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation |
| 8 | Diffusional Growth, The "Moving Boundary" Problem |
| 9 | Solidification |
| 10 | Spinodal Decomposition |
| 11 | Particle Coarsening |
| 12 | Sintering |