Course Overview
This course is an introduction to applied thermodynamics. Topics include a review of units and common terms, specific heat of substances, mechanical equivalent of heat, latent heat of fusion and evaporation, enthalpy, thermal expansion of metals and liquids; heat transfer by conduction and combined modes, and the Laws of Perfect Gases.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
4.0
- Retired
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- Use the basic SI units involved in solving thermodynamic problems.
- Use the basic SI units involved in solving thermodynamic problems.
- Solve problems involving latent heat of fusion, latent heat of evaporation, and enthalpy.
- Solve problems involving mixtures of water, substances, ice, and steam.
- Solve problems involving expansion of metals and liquids.
- Solve problems involving heat transfer through a solid material and solid composite material.
- Solve simple problems involving heat transfer through a boundary layer, using a surface heat transfer coefficient.
- Solve simple problems involving radiation.
- Solve problems involving Boyle's and Charles' laws.
- Solve problems involving the Characteristic Equation of a Perfect Gas.
- Solve problems involving the specific heat of gases.
- Solve problems to determine the work done on a gas at constant pressure.
- Solve problems related to the First Law of Thermodynamics in closed systems.
- Solve problems relating to the expansion and compression of gases during polytropic, adiabatic, and isothermal processes.
- Solve problems to determine the index of compression ("n") of a perfect gas.
Effective as of Winter 2011
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