John Cabot University
Thermodynamics
ENGR 213
Iowa State Course Substitution
Engineering Thermodynamics I
ME 2310
Course Info
*This course is only taught in the summer!*
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