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Section 1: Basic Concepts: XE-E Thermodynamics

This document outlines the sections that will be covered in a thermodynamics course, including: 1. Basic concepts of thermodynamics such as systems, properties, processes, and the three laws of thermodynamics. 2. The first law of thermodynamics and how it relates to energy, enthalpy, and various thermodynamic processes. 3. The second law of thermodynamics, limitations of the first law, concepts of entropy and the principles of irreversibility. 4. Properties of pure substances and equations of state for gases. 5. Thermodynamic relations involving quantities like internal energy, enthalpy, and Maxwell relations. 6. Analyses of common

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Section 1: Basic Concepts: XE-E Thermodynamics

This document outlines the sections that will be covered in a thermodynamics course, including: 1. Basic concepts of thermodynamics such as systems, properties, processes, and the three laws of thermodynamics. 2. The first law of thermodynamics and how it relates to energy, enthalpy, and various thermodynamic processes. 3. The second law of thermodynamics, limitations of the first law, concepts of entropy and the principles of irreversibility. 4. Properties of pure substances and equations of state for gases. 5. Thermodynamic relations involving quantities like internal energy, enthalpy, and Maxwell relations. 6. Analyses of common

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XE-E

Thermodynamics

Section 1: Basic Concepts


Continuum and macroscopic approach; thermodynamic systems (closed and
open); thermodynamic properties and equilibrium; state of a system, state
postulate for simple compressible substances, state diagrams, paths and processes
on state diagrams; concepts of heat and work, different modes of work; zeroth law
of thermodynamics; concept of temperature.

Section 2: First Law of Thermodynamics


Concept of energy and various forms of energy; internal energy, enthalpy; specific
heats; first law applied to elementary processes, closed systems and control
volumes, steady and unsteady flow analysis.

Section 3: Second Law of Thermodynamics


Limitations of the first law of thermodynamics, concepts of heat engines and heat
pumps/refrigerators, Kelvin-Planck and Clausius statements and their equivalence;
reversible and irreversible processes; Carnot cycle and Carnot principles/theorems;
thermodynamic temperature scale; Clausius inequality and concept of entropy;
microscopic interpretation of entropy, the principle of increase of entropy, T-s
diagrams; second law analysis of control volume; availability and irreversibility; third
law of thermodynamics.

Section 4: Properties of Pure Substances


Thermodynamic properties of pure substances in solid, liquid and vapor phases; P-vT behaviour of simple compressible substances, phase rule, thermodynamic
property tables and charts, ideal and real gases, ideal gas equation of state and
van der Waals equation of state; law of corresponding states, compressibility factor
and generalized compressibility chart.

Section 5: Thermodynamic Relations


T-ds relations, Helmholtz and Gibbs functions, Gibbs relations, Maxwell relations,
Joule-Thomson coefficient, coefficient of volume expansion, adiabatic and
isothermal compressibilities, Clapeyron and Clapeyron-Clausius equations.

Section 6: Thermodynamic Cycles


Carnot vapor cycle, ideal Rankine cycle, Rankine reheat cycle, air-standard Otto
cycle, air-standard Diesel cycle, air-standard Brayton cycle, vapor-compression
refrigeration cycle.

Section 7: Ideal Gas Mixtures


Daltons and Amagats laws, properties of ideal gas mixtures, air-water vapor
mixtures and simple thermodynamic processes involving them; specific and relative
humidities, dew point and wet bulb temperature, adiabatic saturation temperature,
psychrometric chart.

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