Credit: 1.0 | Prerequisite: Precalculus & Physics

This Engineering course is among the first few courses a student of Mechanical Engineering encounters in college. Its focus is on the energy exchange within and between mechanical systems. Topics include: ideal gases, their interactions, and their extensive and intensive properties, the first, second, and zeroth laws of thermodynamics, internal energy (enthalpy), specific heat, adiabatic processes, other gas laws (Boyle’s, Charles’, and Gay-Lussac’s), heating curves and triple points, equations of state, properties of open and closed systems, entropy, Gibbs free energy, Carnot cycles, types and specifics of heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation, and the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers and their applications.