Thermodynamics

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Introduction to thermodynamics

The first law of thermodynamics

1 Heat Q And work W

2 Internal energy U

3 Calculating change in internal energy: the same change in U Is produced

4 Human metabolism and the first law of thermodynamics

5 Section summary

6 Conceptual questions

7 Problems & Exercises

The first law of thermodynamics and some simple processes

1 PV Diagrams and their relationship to work done on or by a gas

2 Total work done in a cyclical process equals the area inside the closed

3 Reversible processes

4 Section summary

5 Conceptual questions

6 Problem exercises

Introduction to the second law of thermodynamics: heat engines and their

Carnot’s perfect heat engine: the second law of thermodynamics restated

Applications of thermodynamics: heat pumps and refrigerators

Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics: disorder and the unavailability

1 Entropy increases in an irreversible (real) process

2 Entropy and the unavailability of energy to do work

3 Heat death of the universe: an overdose of entropy

4 Order to disorder

5 Life, evolution, and the second law of thermodynamics

6 Section summary

7 Conceptual questions

8 Problem exercises

Statistical interpretation of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics

2 Disorder in a gas

3 Section summary

4 Conceptual questions

5 Problem exercises

Source: OpenStax, Physics 101. OpenStax CNX. Jan 07, 2013 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11479/1.1

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