About thermodynamics
The course enables students to: • Understand the relationship between internal energy, heat and work as expressed by the First Law of Thermodynamics; • Apply the conservation of energy to thermodynamic systems • State and explain the Second Law of Thermodynamics • Explain how the Carnot cycle applies to heat engines and refrigeration cycles • Explain the concept of entropy • Apply the concept of availability, irreversibility and the second law in defining the efficiency of a system