John Cabot University

Thermodynamics

ENGR 213

Iowa State Course Substitution

Engineering Thermodynamics I

ME 2310

Course Info

International Credits: 3.0
Converted Credits: 3.0
Country: Italy
Language: English
Special Notes:

*This course is only taught in the summer!*

Course Description:

This course provides an introduction to Thermodynamics, a branch of physics concerned with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work. It defines macroscopic variables, such as internal energy, entropy, and pressure that partly describe a body of matter or radiation. It states that the behavior of those variables is subject to general constraints that are common to all materials, not the peculiar properties of particular materials. These general constraints are expressed in the four laws of thermodynamics, which can be explained by statistical mechanics, in terms of the microscopic constituents. The course includes basic elements of classical thermodynamics, including first and second laws, properties of pure materials, ideal gas law, reversibility and irreversibility, and Carnot cycle; control volume analysis of closed simple systems and open systems at steady state; engineering applications, including cycles; psychrometrics.

Review

Evaluated Date:
September 13, 2023
Evaluated:
Howard Shapiro
Expiration Date:
September 13, 2028