AA283 Aircraft and Rocket Propulsion Table of Contents BJ Cantwell
AA283 Aircraft and Rocket Propulsion Table of Contents BJ Cantwell
AA283 Aircraft and Rocket Propulsion Table of Contents BJ Cantwell
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A Thermochemistry A-1
A.1 Thermochemical tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
A.2 Standard pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
A.2.1 What about pressures other than standard? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
A.2.2 Equilibrium between phases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5
A.2.3 Reference temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7
A.3 Reference reaction and reference state for elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7
A.4 The heat of formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8
A.4.1 Example - heat of formation of monatomic hydrogen at 298.15 K and
at 1000 K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9
A.4.2 Example - heat of formation of gaseous and liquid water . . . . . . . A-10
A.4.3 Example - combustion of hydrogen and oxygen diluted by nitrogen . A-13
A.4.4 Example - combustion of methane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-14
A.4.5 Example - the heating value of JP-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-16
A.5 Heat capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-17
A.6 Chemical bonds and the heat of formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-20
A.6.1 Potential energy of two hydrogen atoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-20
A.6.2 Atomic hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-22
A.6.3 Diatomic hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-23
A.7 Heats of formation computed from bond energies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-26
A.8 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-28