Standard syllabus
Thermodynamics · Undergraduate · Engineering
Topics
Concepts and first law
- Systems, properties, state, and equilibrium
- Zeroth law and temperature scales
- Work and heat as path-dependent interactions
- First law for closed and open systems
- Enthalpy, internal energy, and specific heats
- Property tables: steam and ideal gas models
- Ideal gas law and compressibility factor intro
- Boundary work for piston-cylinder processes
- Cycle analysis: net work and thermal efficiency
- Steady-flow devices: nozzles, diffusers, turbines
Second law and entropy
- Heat engines, refrigerators, and heat pumps
- Kelvin-Planck and Clausius statements
- Reversible versus irreversible processes
- Carnot cycle and Carnot efficiency limits
- Entropy definition and Clausius inequality
- Isentropic processes and T-s diagrams
- Entropy generation and second-law efficiency
- Isentropic efficiency of turbines and compressors
- Third law and absolute entropy (intro)
- Exergy and irreversibility accounting (overview)
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