Originally Posted by SalsaPodio

I have discovered the difference between graduate level materials thermo and undergraduate.

Undergraduate: Learn thermo functions and kind of how to use them. Basically plug and chug once you know what you're doing

Graduate: Professor says that you should be able to derive all thermodynamic functions from 1st and 2nd laws, including maxwell equations and all partial derivatives. Once you finally derive all the equations then you use them in the exact same way as in undergraduate thermo.

I hate this class.