Use this schedule to plan your reading and studying. The topic sequence is good, but the actual dates will change based on our progress.
Readings are keyed to Sonntag, Borgnakke, and Van Wylen, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (6th ed.).
| August 20 | Administrivia | |
| Thermodynamics: Introduction | Text p. 14 | |
| Definitions | Text pp. 14-18 | |
| August 22 | Definitions | Text pp. 14-18 |
| Concept Review: Moles | Text pp. 19-20 | |
| August 24 | Concept Review: Moles | Text pp. 19-20 |
| Concept Review: Force | Text pp. 20 | |
| Pressure | Text pp. 25-31 | |
| August 27 | Pressure | Text pp. 25-31 |
| Energy | Text pp. 21-23 | |
| August 29 | Phase Behavior | Text pp. 44-51 |
| August 31 | Phase Behavior | Text pp. 44-51 |
| September 8 | Thermodynamic Tables | Text pp. 51-59 |
| September 10 | Equations of State | Text pp. 61-69 |
| Work | Text pp. 84-99 | |
| September 12 | Work | Text pp. 84-99 |
| Heat | Text pp. 100-01 | |
| Heat Transfer | Text pp. 101-03 | |
| September 14 | First Law Analysis (Closed Systems) | Text pp. 116-24, 141-43 |
| September 17 | Review for Test 1 | |
| September 19 | Test 1 | |
| September 21 | Polytropic Processes | |
| Internal Energy | Text pp. 124-26 | Enthalpy | Text pp. 130-33 |
| Specific Heat | Text pp. 133-35 | |
| September 24 | Thermodynamic Properties of Ideal Gases | Text pp. 135-41 |
| September 26 | Thermodynamic Properties of Solids & Liquids | |
| Solving Thermo Problems | Text pp. 126-30 | |
| September 28 | Conservation of Mass | Text pp. 143-44, 162-65 |
| October 1 | First Law Analysis: Open Systems | Text pp. 165-67 |
| October 3 | First Law Analysis: Open Systems | Text pp. 165-67 |
| Steady Flow Processes | Text pp. 167-69 | |
| October 5 | Steady Flow Processes | Text pp. 167-69 |
| October 8 | Common Steady Flow Devices | Text pp. 169-83 |
| October 10 | Test 2 | |
| October 14 | Common Steady Flow Devices | Text pp. 169-83 |
| October 22 | Review Test | |
| October 24 | Uniform State/Uniform Flow Processes | Text pp. 183-93 |
| October 26 | ||
| October 26 | Uniform State/Uniform Flow Processes | Text pp. 183-93 |
| October 26 | ||
| October 29 | 2nd Law of Thermodynamics | Text pp. 220-23 |
| Reversibility | Text pp. 223-27 | |
| October 31 | Carnot Cycle | Text pp. 227-33, 236-39 |
| November 2 | Heat Engines | Text pp. 214-20 |
| Thermal Efficiency | Text pp. 214-20 | |
| November 5 | Entropy | Text pp. 251-57 |
| November 7 | Entropy Data | Text pp. 257-59 |
| Calculating Entropy Changes: Reversible Processes | Text pp. 259-64 | |
| November 9 | Calculating Entropy Changes: Closed Irreversible Processes | Text pp. 264-66 |
| November 12 | Test III | |
| November 14 | Entropy Generation and Increase | Text pp. 266-72 |
| Process Entropy Changes | Text pp. 272-82 | |
| 2nd Law Analysis of Open Systems | Text pp. 282, 302-3, 316-17 | |
| November 16 | 2nd Law Analysis of Flow Processes | Text pp. 304-16 |
| November 19 | 2nd Law Analysis of Flow Processes | Text pp. 304-16 |
| November 27 | 2nd Law Analysis of Flow Processes | Text pp. 304-16 |
| November 29 | 2nd Law Analysis of Flow Processes | Text pp. 304-16 |
| December 1 | Assessment Test | |
| December 4 | ||
| December 6 | ||
| December 8 | General Review | |
| TBA |
Revised: 26 July 2005 by RMP