Crash Course Thermodynamics
What you'll 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
Requirements
- A basic understanding of Thermodynamic Vocabulary (Temperature, Pressure, Heat, etc.)
- An understanding of basic integration and derivation.
- The desire to learn 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.
Who this course is for:
- 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
Course content
- Preview04:22
- 04:29Internal Energy and Enthalpy Clarifications
- 04:34Heat Transfer
- 5 questionsLearning Check: Quiz #1
Instructor
![James Andrews](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 6 Reviews
- 11 Students
- 1 Course
I am a mechanical engineering student at California Polytechnic State University. I was recently accepted into the graduate program at Cal Poly to get a master's degree in mechanical engineering. I will be focusing on fluid and thermal sciences during my graduate studies.
My goal is to help engineering students realize that many engineering concepts and classes are actually quite intuitive, despite their connotations. I plan to make courses as concise as possible to avoid wasting the time of students. I believe that this approach will also avoid clogging students with unnecessary information. In my opinion, many engineering courses teach you to memorize a plethora of specific cases, rather than teaching you the fundamental analysis required to solve any type of problem.