500561 - THERMODYNAMICS

Mechanical properties of fluids. Basics of Thermodynamics, The Zero principle. Calorimetry and Thermometers. The basic problem of Thermodynamics, extensive and intensive Parameters, Equations of State and Processes, ideal and real Gases, The Principles of Thermodynamics, properties of Energy and Entropy, Thermodynamic Potentials, Maxwell Relations and Phase Transitions, Kinetic theory of gases, a brief Summary of Statistical Thermodynamics.

Mechanical properties of fluids and fundamentals of Thermodynamics.
Fluids: static equation and applications. Fluid dynamics: Bernoulli theorem and real fluid equations. Viscosity, stress tensor, laminar motion and Reynolds number.
Thermodynamics: The thermodynamic system, the zero principle, thermometers, ideal gas law. Kinetic theory of ideal gases and real gases. Thermodynamic work, internal energy, heat. First principle. Heat transmission and calorimetry.
Second principle, Carnot theorem and thermodynamic cycles. Clausius theorem and definition of entropy. Entropy and irreversibility.
Introduction to statistical thermodynamics: partition function and statistical interpretation of thermodynamic quantities (entropy, internal energy, work, heat); equipartition theorem. Third principle. Thermodynamic potentials, Maxwell relations and phase transitions.

Examples of application of the main concepts introduced in class; analysis and solution of selected problems.