Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Discussion
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: "C-" or better in (MATH 2250 OR 2270) AND (PHYS 2210 OR 3210 OR AP Phys C:Mech score of 4 or better) AND Intermediate or Full Major status in Engineering.
Description
Thermodynamic 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.