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 24 | Administrivia | |
| Thermodynamics: Introduction | Text p. 14 | |
| Definitions | Text pp. 14-18 | |
| August 26 | Definitions | Text pp. 14-18 |
| August 28 | Concept Review: Moles | Text pp. 19-20 |
| Concept Review: Force | Text pp. 20 | |
| August 31 | Pressure | Text pp. 25-31 |
| September 2 | Energy | Text pp. 21-23 |
| Phase Behavior | Text pp. 44-51 | |
| September 4 | Phase Behavior | Text pp. 44-51 |
| September 9 | Thermodynamic Tables | Text pp. 51-59 |
| September 11 | Thermodynamic Tables | Text pp. 51-59 |
| Equations of State | Text pp. 61-69 | |
| September 14 | Equations of State | Text pp. 61-69 |
| Work | Text pp. 84-99 | |
| September 16 | Heat | Text pp. 100-01 |
| Heat Transfer | Text pp. 101-03 | |
| September 18 | First Law Analysis (Closed Systems) | Text pp. 116-24, 141-43 |
| September 21 | Internal Energy | Text pp. 124-26 | Enthalpy | Text pp. 130-33 |
| September 24 | Specific Heat | Text pp. 133-35 |
| September 25 | Thermodynamic Properties of Ideal Gases | Text pp. 135-41 |
| Thermodynamic Properties of Solids & Liquids | ||
| Polytropic Processes | ||
| Closed System Example | ||
| September 28 | ||
| Closed System Example | ||
| Conservation of Mass | Text pp. 143-44, 162-65 | |
| September 30 | First Law Analysis: Open Systems | Text pp. 165-67 |
| Steady Flow Processes | Text pp. 167-69 | |
| October 2 | Common Steady Flow Devices | Text pp. 169-83 |
| October 5 | Common Steady Flow Devices | Text pp. 169-83 |
| October 7 | Test 1 | |
| October 9 | Uniform State/Uniform Flow Processes | Text pp. 183-93 |
| October 26 | ||
| October 12 | Uniform State/Uniform Flow Processes | Text pp. 183-93 |
| October 26 | ||
| October 14 | Heat Engines | Text pp. 214-20 |
| Thermal Efficiency | Text pp. 214-20 | |
| October 16 | 2nd Law of Thermodynamics | Text pp. 220-23 |
| Reversibility | Text pp. 223-27 | |
| October 26 | Review Test | |
| Reversibility | Text pp. 223-27 | |
| Carnot Cycle | Text pp. 227-33, 236-39 | |
| October 28 | Carnot Cycle | Text pp. 227-33, 236-39 |
| October 30 | Test 2 | |
| November 2 | Entropy | Text pp. 251-57 |
| Entropy Data | Text pp. 257-59 | |
| November 4 | Entropy Data | Text pp. 257-59 |
| Calculating Entropy Changes: Reversible Processes | Text pp. 259-64 | |
| November 6 | Calculating Entropy Changes: Reversible Processes | Text pp. 259-64 |
| November 9 | Calculating Entropy Changes: Closed Irreversible Processes | Text pp. 264-66 |
| Entropy Generation and Increase | Text pp. 266-72 | |
| November 11 | Process Entropy Changes | Text pp. 272-82 |
| November 13 | 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 18 | 2nd Law Analysis of Flow Processes | Text pp. 304-16 |
| November 20 | 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