Conservation
Principles in Thermal Sciences, Fall 2003
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Staff:
Instructor:
Scott A. Socolofsky
CE/TTI 802B, (979) 845-4517
Office hours: 4-5:00 p.m. MTW
socolofs@tamu.edu
Teaching Assistant:
Tirtharaj Bhaumik
HYDRO 102, (979) 696-4305
Office hours: MTW 10-11:00 a.m.
tirtharaj@neo.tamu.edu
Computer Labs:
n/a
Course Meeting Times:
MW 1:30-3:40 pm, Zachry 127B
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Course
Objectives
The objective of this course is
to help students acquire a basic
knowledge of thermodynamics and fluids to analyze thermal systems
by helping students to learn:
- principles of conservation of
mass and energy
- relationships between and
application of thermodynamic properties
- concepts of heat and work
energy
- how to analyze open and closed
systems
- applications of entropy and
the second law of thermodynamics
- how to estimate performance of
gas and vapor cycles
- introductory concepts of fluid
statics and dynamics
- use of computer to model
thermodynamic systems
The skills learned through this
course are also exercised through conducting a group project.
This year's group project was to design and conduct an experiment
demonstrating a thermodynamic concept from the course. The
Class Projects
Proceedings contains the reports written by each team in Fall
2003.
Course
Description
(From undergraduate catalog)
Conservation Principles in
Thermal Sciences. (2-2). Credit 3. I, II, S Theory and
application of energy methods in engineering; conservation
principles to investigate "traditional" thermodynamics and
internal flow fluids. Prerequisites: MATH 251 or
registration therein; upper-level classification in a College of
Engineering major.
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