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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Thermodynamics in Energy Engineering
This online course provided an introduction to the basic thermodynamic principles widely used in many engineering fields.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
YunJung LEE
Professor in the Department of Energy Engineering
Hanyang University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss the usefulness of energy and entropy functions
- Explore the influence of physical variables on the change of energy and entropy functions
- Understand the first and second laws of thermodynamics
Syllabus
- Introduction to the first law of thermodynamics: The concept of conservation of energy, closed and open systems
- Mathematical formulation of the first law and examples to demonstrate the use of energy balance equations
- Calculation of energy changes and enthalpy changes involved in chemical reaction
- The meaning of equation of state and demonstration of the usefulness of equation of state for ideal gases in relating the physical variables in various situations
- Introduction to The second law of thermodynamics: why the 2nd law is the entropy principle, what the entropy is and how the entropy is related to the useful energy
- Focus on the traditional interpretation of entropy and the closely related topics
- Exercise showing the relation between total entropy and reversibility
- Focus on solving entropy change problems to illustrate the relation between entropy and reversibility
- Introduction to the third law of thermodynamics: The temperature principle which is essential to solve problems related to the entropy changes
- Definition of free energy derived from the criteria for reversibility and the physical meaning of free energy
Issued on 8th August 2016
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