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Course Description: Basic concepts in heat and thermodynamics – Thermal equilibrium and the zeroth law of thermodynamics – Ideal gases – Kinetic theory of gases – The first law of thermodynamics – Applications of the first law of thermodynamics – Isothermal process – Adiabatic process – Reversible and irreversible processes – The second law of thermodynamics – Heat engines – Refrigerators – Carnot cycle – Otto cycle – Clapeyron equation for latent heat and its applications – Entropy – Thermodynamic functions – Maxwell relations and their applications – Phase change – The third law of thermodynamics – Applications of the laws of thermodynamics.