Properties of pure substances. Work and heat. Energy and the first law. Energy balance for closed systems and steady state control volumes. Second law and entropy. Entropy balance for closed systems and steady state control volumes. Thermodynamic cycles for power plants and refrigeration systems. Ideal gas mixtures and psychrometrics. Reacting mixtures and combustion.
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Its a very tough module. idk what the person below me is smoking. 13 chapters compressed into 4 exam questions. No cheat sheet and no formula given. There’s way too much content to memorise. If you are taking this mod, best take it in sem 1, away from Prof Duan and Prof Chan. Those 2 set the questions in sem 2 insanely difficult. You can look at the sem 2 pyp and compare it to sem 1 pyp for yourself. The contrast in difficulty is huge.
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The part on entropy, gas and steam cycles are generally doable and easy to understand. The tedious part would be memorising the P-v and T-s diagrams for the different cycles for finals since it is closed book.
The difficult part for this mod will be the air-fuel mixture. It requires good chemistry knowledge in order to do well for this part.
June 4, 2021
