Crash Course Thermodynamics
A concise course that emphasizes the most important aspects of problem solving in Engineering Thermodynamics.
Description
This course will teach you how to analyze any thermodynamics problem using the most fundamental form of the major thermodynamic equations (Continuity, 1st Law of Thermodynamics, 2nd Law of Thermodynamics). This approach helps prevent students from having to learn specific equations for specific cases, which often makes thermodynamics give students a headache. While the equations in this course will initially seem more complicated than those commonly found in the textbook, the small added complexity allows the equations to apply to all cases. Therefore, once you learn this fundamental approach, every problem will follow the same steps. Further, once you become comfortable with this approach, I strongly believe you will agree with me that Thermodynamics is not as difficult as it seems.
What You Will Learn!
- Thermodynamics
- Fluid Property Charts
- Control Volume Analysis
- Conservation of Mass / Continuity
- 1st Law of Thermodynamics
- 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
- Reynolds Transport Theorem
- TS Diagrams
- Thermodynamic Devices
- Ideal Gas Law
- Specific Heats
- Efficiency
- TdS Equations
- Polytropic Equation
- Heat and Work
- Entropy
Who Should Attend!
- Engineering students struggling with Thermodynamics
- Engineering students that would like to understand a fundamental approach to Thermodynamics
- Students who want to learn why Thermodynamics is relatively intuitive