Entropy is introduced through a Carnot cycle using ideal gas as the medium, and the following illustration considers any reversible cycle operating with any medium. The second law is illustrated in Chapter 3 rather than presenting an axiomatic approach physical explanation is given for 2nd law using cyclic process involving expansion and compression processes. Fundamental concepts related to matter, phase (solid, liquid, and gas), pressure, saturation pressure, temperature, energy, and entropy, component property in a mixture and stability are discussed.Ĭhapter 2 discusses the first law for closed and open systems and includes problems involving irreversible processes. The overview of microscopic thermodynamics illustrates the physical principles governing the macroscopic behavior of substances that are the subject of classical thermodynamics. Due to limited time for grasping the theory in the ever-growing electronic era, ample examples are included to supplement strong theoretical backgroundĬhapter 1 contains an elementary overview of undergraduate thermodynamics, mathematics and a brief look at the corpuscular aspects of thermodynamics. There are more than 110 figures and 150 engineering examples covered in fourteen chapters. Readers will find the esoteric material to be condensed and, as engineers, we have stressed applications throughout the text. Thereby, we have written the text in the form of a self–teaching tool for students and engineers, and with ample example problems. It first presents the phenomenological approach to a problem and then delves into the details. This text uses a “down–to–earth” and, perhaps, unconventional approach in teaching advanced concepts in thermodynamics. In writing this text, we acknowledge that debt and that to our students who asked questions that clarified each chapter that we wrote. The instructors have been teaching advanced thermodynamics for more than twelve years using various thermodynamic texts written by others. The problems sections have been revamped and tables have been revised.
Further many errors in the first edition have been corrected in the 2nd edition. Decimal outline format has been used for the entire text in the revised edition. In many instances we have included physical explanations along with the mathematical relations and equations so that the principles can be relatively applied to real world problems. While the fundamental concepts in any discipline are relatively invariant, the problems it faces keep changing. We have written this text for engineers who wish to grasp the engineering physics of thermodynamic concepts and apply the knowledge in their field of interest rather than merely digest the abstract generalized concepts and mathematical relations governing thermodynamics. Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, Orlando, Florida Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
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