Feb. 6  | The concept of energy, system, properties. Units. Examples. |
Feb. 13 | Quasi-equilibrium process, internal energy, simple compressible system, State postulate. Density (specific volume), pressure and temperature. Examples. |
Feb. 20 | Pure substance and its properties. Phases. Property diagrams and tables. Examples. |
Feb. 27 | The ideal gas model. Compressibility. Equation of state. |
Mar. 5 | Energy interactions of the system: Heat and work. First law of thermodynamics. |
Mar. 12 | Mid Term Exam 1, 9:00- 11:00 First law applied to closed systems. |
Mar. 19 | Internal energy, enthalpy and specific heat of substances. Open systems. Steady state steady flow(SSSF), uniform state uniform flow control volumes (USUF). |
Mar. 26 | Turbines, compressors, pumps and other SSSF and USUF systems. |
Apr. 2 | Heat engines, refrigerators, heat pumps. Reversible and irreversible processes. Carnot cycle, Carnot principles. |
Apr. 9 | Entropy, Clausius inequality, principle of increase of entropy. Gibbs relationships. |
Apr. 16 | Mid Term Exam 2, 9:00- 11:00. Entropy change of ideal gases. |
Apr. 23 | Entropy change of a pure substance. T-s diagram. Isentropic processes and efficiency |
Apr. 30 | Exergy (availability), reversible work, irreversibility, usefull work. |
May 7 | Exergy balance. Thermoeconomics. |
Course evaluation:Homeworks (tutorials) (15%) , 2 midterm exams (20 + 20 = %40), Final exam (%45).
All topics covered during the course will be asked in the final exam.
Notes :
A total of 10 problem sets (tutorials) will be given to the students every week and students will be asked to
solve and hand in one of the problems to the instructor in the following week. The problem will be marked and handed
back to the students the week after. Summarized solutions of the tutorials will be placed on "Blackboad" two
weeks after they are handed in.
Exams will be closed book and notes. However the students will be allowed to bring one page of helpfull
information sheet which he or she has prepared. This page cannot be a photocopy.