Unit 1
Systems, Properties, Processes, Cycles; State of a system and state postulate; State and path functions; Temperature and zeroth law of thermodynamics; Pressure and pressure measurement; Energy and its forms: Potential and Kinetic energy, Internal energy; Energy sources; Energy transfer – Heat, W ork, Electricity; Mechanisms of heat transfer; Work: Moving boundary work, Flow work, Shaft, spring, elasticity, surface tension, and electrical work; Energy balance – First law for open and closed systems, steady and unsteady state processes.
Phases and phase diagrams of a pure substance, Saturation, Superheating, T-v, P-v, P-T diagrams and the P-v-T surface; Enthalpy; Property tables; Ideal and nonideal gases: van der Waals, Soave-Redlich-Kwong, Peng-Robinson equations of state; Virial equation and its physical meaning; Compressibility factor.