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MCL140: Engineering Thermodynamics

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Lecture Notes

• Course Contents & Books: Engineering Thermodynamics
• Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics
• The Birth of Engineering Thermodynamics
• Basic Concepts in Engineering Thermodynamics
• Primary Elements of Engineering Thermodynamics
• Know Your Thermodynamic Systems
• Macroscopic Description of Thermodynamic Systems
• Quantification of Macroscopic Property:Theory Vs Practice
• Methods & Means for Property Measurement & Need For A Law
• Zeroth Law of Themodynamics
• Process & Cycles
• Behavior of Substance During A Process
• Theory of Producing Vapour
• Vapours & Gases
• Development of EoS for Vapours & Gases
• Thermodynamic Work
• Modes of Work Transfer
• An Action due to Thermal Inequilibrium
• Modes of Heat Transfer
• Analysis of First Law of Thermodynamics
• Microscopic Energy
• First Law for A Control Volume
• Engineering Applications of Control Volume-1
• Engineering Applications of Control Volume-2
• The Cyclic Devices
• Analysis of Second Law & Reversible Cyclic Machines
• Further Analysis of Reversible Machines
• Entropy Change
• Shaft Power Generation Devices-1
• Shaft Power Generation Devices - 2

Tutorial Notes

• Basic Concepts
• Ancestors of Thermodynamincs
• Basic Concepts in Thermodynamics
• Properties of Pure Substance
• Thermodynamic Work Transfer
• Modes of Heat Transfer & First Law Analysis
• First Law Analysis of A CV /An Assembly of CVs
• Second Law Analysis
• Solved examples on gas cycles

Reading Material

• Energy and Human Evolution
• History of Thermodynamics
• Nobel Lecture by JOHANNES D. VANDERWAALS on December 12, 1910
• Equations of state for vapors