Crash Course Thermodynamics

A concise course that emphasizes the most important aspects of problem solving in Engineering Thermodynamics.

What you'll learn
Thermodynamics
Fluid Property Charts
Control Volume Analysis
Conservation of Mass / Continuity
1st Law of Thermodynamics
2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Reynolds Transport Theorem
TS Diagrams
Thermodynamic Devices
Ideal Gas Law
Specific Heats
Efficiency
TdS Equations
Polytropic Equation
Heat and Work
Entropy
Requirements
A basic understanding of Thermodynamic Vocabulary (Temperature, Pressure, Heat, etc.)
An understanding of basic integration and derivation.
The desire to learn Thermodynamics.
Description
This course will teach you how to analyze any thermodynamics problem using the most fundamental form of the major thermodynamic equations (Continuity, 1st Law of Thermodynamics, 2nd Law of Thermodynamics). This approach helps prevent students from having to learn specific equations for specific cases, which often makes thermodynamics give students a headache. While the equations in this course will initially seem more complicated than those commonly found in the textbook, the small added complexity allows the equations to apply to all cases. Therefore, once you learn this fundamental approach, every problem will follow the same steps. Further, once you become comfortable with this approach, I strongly believe you will agree with me that Thermodynamics is not as difficult as it seems.

Who this course is for:
Engineering students struggling with Thermodynamics,Engineering students that would like to understand a fundamental approach to Thermodynamics,Students who want to learn why Thermodynamics is relatively intuitive