Thermodynamics & Kinetics
MIT's 5.60 covers equilibrium properties of macroscopic systems, the laws of thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium in gas and solution phases, and the rates of chemical reactions. Lecture notes were developed over many years by MIT chemistry faculty including Robert A. Alberty, Carl W. Garland, and John S. Waugh, with contributions from Rice University's James L. Kinsey and University of Illinois physicist Philip W. Phillips. The OpenCourseWare materials include full lecture notes, problem sets, and exams covering topics like entropy, free energy, phase equilibria, reaction kinetics, and statistical mechanics foundations. There is no instructor interaction or certificate, since this is a self-paced archive of MIT's undergraduate chemistry course materials, but the notes are detailed enough to serve as a genuine textbook substitute for anyone studying physical chemistry independently.