Engineering Thermodynamics

3 credits · Undergraduate Programs

Energy, thermodynamic systems, properties and state, temperature and the zeroth law, equilibrium, properties of the pure substance, equations of state. Work, reversibility, heat, first law, specific heats, enthalpy, ideal gas, flow systems. Entropy and the second law, Carnot cycle, thermodynamic temperature scale, process efficiencies, cycles, calculation of entropy change, exergy analysis. Prerequisite(s): Engineering 201 or Engineering 212; and Mathematics 275.