Lectures:
The course meets four days per week for 50-minute lectures. Topic
Include:
- Introduction to classical thermodynamics
- Historical perspectives
- Macroscopic versus microscopic description of system
- Thermodynamic equilibrium
- Empirical Thermodynamic temperature and its measurement
- Constant volume gas thermometer
- Intensive and extensive macroscopic properties
- First Law of thermodynamics
- Mechanical concept of energy and work
- Concept of heat and its transfer by conduction, convection,
and radiation
- Definition of internal energy
- The First Law of thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic state
- The state postulate
- The (p-v-T) relation
- Ideal gas model
- Generalized compressibility chart
- Van der Waals equation of state
- Enthalpy and specific heats
- Conservation of energy for open systems
- Conservation of mass
- Conservation of energy
- Steady and unsteady systems Second Law of thermodynamics
- Clausius and Kelvin-Planck Statements
- Heat engines and refrigerators
- Carnot cycle
- Kelvin absolute temperature scale
- Entropy
- Clausius inequality and macroscopic definition of entropy
- Boltzmann microscopic definition of entropy
- Entropy change of ideal gases, liquids, and solids
- Second Law analysis of open systems
- Isentropic processes and isentropic efficiency
Assignments/Evaluation:
Assignments and evaluations methods vary by instructor and may
include reports, homework, quizzes, and exams.
Textbook:
Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics
4th Edition, by M. J. Moran and H. N. Shapiro, Wiley
1998.
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