Thermodynamics for engineers (Record no. 35579)

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LC control number 2013946505
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International Standard Book Number 9780071830829
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Call number 621.4021 PO TH
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Authors Potter, Merle C.
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Thermodynamics for engineers
Statement of responsibility, etc Merle C. Potter, Craig W. Somerton
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition 3rd ed.
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New York :
Publisher McGrawhill,
Date c2014.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 406 p. :
Other Details ill. ;
Size 28 cm.
SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Schaum's outline
GENERAL NOTE
General note Previous edition: New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
CONTENTS
Contents 1. Concepts, definitions, and basic principles -- Introduction -- Thermodynamic systems and control volume -- Macroscopic description -- Properties and state of a system -- Thermodynamic equilibrium, processes -- Units -- Density, specific volume, specific weight -- Pressure -- Temperature -- Energy -- 2. Properties of pure substances -- Introduction -- The P-v-T surface -- The liquid-vapor region -- Steam tables -- The ideal-gas equation of state -- Equations of state for a nonideal gas -- 3. Work and heat -- Introduction -- Definition of work -- Quasiequilibrium work due to a moving boundary -- Nonequilibrium work -- Other work modes -- Heat -- 4. The first law of thermodynamics -- Introduction -- The first law of thermodynamics applied to a cycle -- The first law applied to a process -- Enthalpy -- Latent heat -- Specific heats -- The first law applied to various processes -- General formulation for control volumes -- Applications of the energy equation -- 5. The second law of thermodynamics -- Introduction -- Heat engines, heat pumps, and refrigerators -- Statements of the second law of thermodynamics -- Reversibility -- The Carnot engine -- Carnot efficiency -- 6. Entropy -- Introduction -- Definition -- Entropy for an ideal gas with constant specific heats -- Entropy for an ideal gas with variable specific heats -- Entropy for substances such as steam, solids, and liquids -- The inequality of Clausius -- Entropy change for an irreversible process -- The second law applied to a control volume -- 7. Reversible work, irreversibility, and availability -- Basic concepts -- Reversible work and irreversibility -- Availability and exergy -- Second-law analysis of a cycle --
SUMMARY
Summary Suitable for engineers, this title includes more than 500 solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills of thermodynamics.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Thermodynamics
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Thermodynamics
General Problems, exercises, etc.
ADDED ENTRY
Name Somerton, Craig W.
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