The course is especially designed for Czech and English spoken students of chemistry and material engineering specialisations. The students use this interactive outline (IO) and keep the study plan given here. The study plan is divided into 14 weeks. The students study individually but regulary in accordance with dating given in IO. It means they study  the texts revealing usually in Mondy 12 a.m. Make short knowledge test given in IO till Sandy 12 p.m. if necessary the students ask for personal discussion. 

The contents of the subject consists chiefly of following items: thermodynamics of non-ideal several-component systems, essential conditions for phase coexistence, phase diagrams, phase transformations, kinetics of phase formation and disappearing, diffusion inside solid state, thermal analysis and its applications, methods of calculations and predictions of phase diagrams, and potency of kinetic simulations. The themes are complemented by examples (rectification, extraction, material heat treatment, separation, material microstructures, nucleation, optimisation of mechanical properties, material design, life-time of materials, ). An attained knowledge allows to understand correctly and to solve a great group of practical problems, which occurs in chemical laboratory, technical practice or during new material production qualifiedly.

Literature
[Atkins]     Atkins P.W.: Physical Chemistry, Oxford Univ.Press, Oxford 1990
[86Por]    Porter D. A., Easterling K. E. : Phase transformations in Metals and Alloys, The Thetford Press Ltd. (1986), UK
[98Hil]     Hillert M.: Phase Equilibria Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations, Cambridge Univ. press (1998), UK
[98Sau]   N. Saunders, and A. P. Miodovnik: ‘CALPHAD (Calculation of Phase Diagram) - A Comprehensive Guide’, Pergamon Materials Series, Vol. 1, Elsevier Science, Amsterodam, 1998.
[08Oonk] H.A.J. Oonk, M.T. Calver> Equilibrium Between Phases of Matter, Springer, 2008.

For Czech student
[Atkins]     Atkins P.W.: Fyzikální chemie, Bratislava (ve slovenštině)
[79Moo]   Walter J. Moore: Fyzikální chemie, SNTL Praha 1979. 
[02Sop] J. Sopoušek: Fázové rovnováhy a difúzí řízené děje v soustavách kovů a jejich slitin (komentář k habilitační práci), Brno, 2002.

Other references
Leitner a kol.: Fázové rovnováhy, scripta VŠChT Praha
Holub R., Voňka P.: Chemická rovnováha heterogenních a kondenzovaných soustav, Academia Praha 1985
Vřešťál J., Kuchař L.: Hutnické Listy, vol 45, yr 1990, 286
Dinsdale A.T.: Calphad, vol 15,yr 1991, 31

WWW pages
http://www.uic.edu:80/~mansoori/Thermodynamic.Data.and.Property_htm
http://sci.muni.cz/~sopousek/vyuka/TD_faz_rov/indexFKR.html