Thermodynamics

THRM1201

  • Requisites: This course is available to students in the Power Engineering Technology or Power Engineering Certificate Program. Pre-Requisite: PHYS1156.
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  • Open Studies: Not Available
  • Credits: 3.00

Fundamental concepts include conservation of energy, types of energy, transitory energies, internal energy, Mechanical Equivalent of Heat, Specific Heat Capacity, temperature systems, sensible heat vs latent heat, 1st and 2nd Laws of Thermodynamics, and thermodynamic properties of steam. Introduction to Gas Laws including calculations involving end-state properties during Isobaric, Isothermal, Isometric, Polytropic, and Adiabatic Processes; work as area under a curve on a P-V diagram and calculation of work quantities during various types of Expansion/Compression Processes.

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