Course Learning Outcomes
The students will gain
- Ability to identify thermodynamic equilibrium state and understand the basic differences between thermodynamics and heat transfer, fluid mechanics courses.
- Habit of correct use of units.
- Ability to differentiate system and control volume processes.
- Understanding of usage of thermodynamic tables.
- Ability to identify the limits of the ideal gas assumption.
- Ability to differentiate qualitatively heat and work.
- Ability to calculate work.
- Ability to appreciate the energy conversion.
- Ability to differentiate unsteady and steady flow applications.
- Ability to analyze different steady flow devices.
- Ability to analyze the heat engines and calculate thermal efficiency.
- Ability to analyze the refrigerators, heat pumps and calculate coefficient of performance.
- Ability to construct ideal cycles applying reversible processes.
- Ability to spot the source of irreversibility.
- Ability to differentiate ideal engine and actual one.
- Ability to appreciate a new property, entropy, not a directly measurable one but indicating the direction of the process.
- Ability to find isentropic efficiency.
- Ability to derive some thermodynamical relations using entropy concept.