Thermodynamics
535.121

This course covers the following: definitions and properties; work and heat; first and second laws of thermodynamics; steady flow and nonflow processes; entropy, availability, and efficiencies; ideal gases, mixtures of gases, gas tables and equations of state; and vapor and vapor tables.

Syllabus

1. Heat, Work, Internal Energy, Conventions
2. Thermodynamic State, Gases, Processes
3. Vapors, Liquids, Solids, State Postulate
4. First Law and Applications
5. First Law, More Applications
6. Exam
7. Enthalpy, Flow Work, SSSF Approximation
8. Examples and Approximations
9. More Examples and Transient Analysis
10. Second Law, Carnot Cycles, Efficiencies
11. Exam
12. Second Law and Entropy
13. Analyses Combining First & Second Law
14. Exam

Prerequisites
535.101-102 Engineering Mechanics I and II.

Instructor
Myron Miller conducts research and consulting in high temperature physics. He has advised legislators on energy and the environment for the past 20 years. He has taught undergraduate classes in thermodynamics, introductory physics, and statistics at Clarkson, UMCP, USNA, and JHU for the past 17 years.

Textbook
Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach by Cengel and Bowles

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Fall 1997