Week

Date

Topics

Reading assignment

Homework assignment

and due date

1

Jan 14

Introduction to Thermodynamics

1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4

Jan 23

1.7, 1.21, 1.27, 1.35, 1.40, 1.42, 1.52, 2.10, 2.15, 2.31, 2.34

Jan 16

Specific volume, pressure, temperature

1.5,1.6,1.7,1.8,1.9

Jan 18

Fundamental Concepts of Energy and Work

2.1,2.2

2

Jan 21

Martin Luther King Jr Day-No Class

Jan 23

Energy and energy transfer by heat

2.3,2.4

Jan 30

See above message board

Jan 25

Energy balance for closed systems

2.5

3

Jan 28

Energy analysis of cycles

2.6

Feb 6

See above message board

Jan 30

Properties evaluation

3.1,3.2

Feb 1

Retrieving Thermodynamic properties

3.3,3.4,3.5.1

4

Feb 4

Evaluation of internal energy and enthalpy

3.5.2,3.6

Feb 13

See above message board

Feb 6

Evaluating properties using computer software

3.7,3.8

Feb 8

Specific heats; evaluating liquid and solid properties

3.9,3.10,3.11

5

Feb 11

Midterm I

Feb 13

Ideal gas model, properties of ideal gas

3.12,3.13

Feb 20

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Feb 15

Applying energy balance to ideal gas; polytropic process relation

3.14,3.15

6

Feb 18

Conservation of mass and mass rate balance

4.1,4.2,4.3

Feb 27

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Feb 20

Conservation of energy

4.4,4.5

Feb 22

Nozzles, diffusers, turbines

4.6,4.7

7

Feb 25

Compressors, pumps

4.8,4.9

Mar 5

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Feb 27

Throttling devices; system integration

4.10,4.11

Feb 29

Transient analysis

4.12

8

Mar 3

Statements of the second law

5.1,5.2

Mar 14

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Mar 5

Irreversibilities; Kelvin-Planck statement

5.3,5.4

Mar 7

Power cycles, heat pump, and refrigeration related to the second law

5.5,5.6,5.7

9

Mar 10

Maximum performance measures

5.8,5.9

Mar 26

Mar 12

Midterm II

Mar 14

Carnot cycle; Clausius inequality

5.10,5.11

Mar 17

Spring Break

Mar 19

Mar 21

10

Mar 24

Introduction to entropy; retrieving entropy

6.1,6.2

Apr 2

Mar 26

Entropy change of ideal gas and incompressible substance

6.3,6.4,6.5

Mar 28

Entropy change in internally reversible process; Entropy balance for closed systems

6.6,6.7

11

Mar 31

Directionality of processes; entropy rate balance for control volume

6.8,6.9,6.10

Apr 9

Apr 2

Isentropic processes

6.11,6.12.1,6.12.2

Apr 4

Heat transfer and work in internally reversible processes

6.12.3,6.13

12

Apr 7

Modeling and analyzing vapor power system

8.1,8.2.1,8.2.2

Apr 18

Apr 9

Analyzing vapor power system

8.2.3,8.2.4

Apr 11

Improving performance

8.3,8.4.1

13

Apr 14

Improving performance-continued

8.4.2,8.4.3

Apr 23

Apr 16

Midterm III

Apr 18

Other vapor cycle aspects

8.5

14

Apr 21

Analyzing vapor-compression refrigeration systems

10.1,10.2.1

Apr 30

Apr 23

Refrigerant properties

10.2.2,10.3

Apr 25

Cascade and multistage vapor-compression systems; Absorption refrigeration

10.4,10.5

15

Apr 28

Heat pump systems

10.6

Apr 30

Final Review

May 2