Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in (MATH 2250 OR MATH 2270) AND (PHYS 2210 OR PHYS 3210 OR AP Physics C:Mech 4+) AND Full Major status in Mechanical Engineering.
Course Attribute:
Sustainability - Limited
Description
Thermodynamics properties, open and closed systems, equations of state, heat and work, first and second laws of thermodynamics. Carnot cycles, reversibility, and entropy changes. Gas power, vapor power, and vapor compression refrigeration cycles, and more advanced topics such as: jet-propulsion cycles and turbocharged engines, gas mixtures and air-conditioning, or combustion and chemical equilibrium.