Syllabus

MECH 371-THERMODYNAMICS I

Spring 2004

MWF 10:00-10:50 AM

Palmer Engineering, Room 104

INSTRUCTOR:        

Professor Miles Greiner

(775) 784-4873, greiner@unr.edu 

Office: Palmer Engineering 213, Office Hours: 2:30-3:30 M, Tu, W, Th

COURSE  DESCRIPTION:

Principles of engineering thermodynamics.  A study of the first and second laws, entropy, ideal and real gases and second-law analysis of engineering systems.  3 credits.

PREREQUISITE:     

PHYS 202.

TEXTBOOK:

C.A. Cengel and M.A. Boles, Thermodynamics:  An Engineering Approach, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1998, Chapters 1-7.

OUTLINE:

Basic Concepts, Ch. 1, 2 lectures, 1 HW

Properties of Pure Substances, Ch. 2, 3 lectures, 2 HW

The First Law - Closed Systems, Ch. 3, 6 lectures, 3 HW

    Review - Chapters 1-3, 1 lecture

    Exam 1, 1 hour

The First Law - Control Volumes, Ch. 4, 5 lectures, 3 HW

The Second Law, Ch. 5, 4 lectures, 2 HW

    Review - Chapters 4 and 5, 1 lecture

    Exam 2, 1 hour

Entropy, Ch. 6, 8 lectures, 3 HW

Refrigeration Laboratory, Ch. 6, 2 lectures, lab assignment

Second Law Analysis of Engineering Systems, Ch. 7, 6 lectures, 2 HW          

    Review - Chapters 6 and 7, 1 lectures

    Final Exam, 2 hour

GRADING:               

                                    16%     Homework (16 assignments)

                                    20%     Exam 1 (September 22, 2004)

                                    28%     Exam 2 (October 18, 2004)

                                      2%     Refrigeration Laboratory (November 12-17, 2004)

                                    34%     Final Exam (Friday, December 10, 2004; 9:45-11:45 AM)

NOTES:                     

NO LATE HOMEWORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.  Your solutions should be neat, on one side of each page, stapled together, and turned in before the lecture starts.  Some one-line answers will be posted outside PE 213.  Full solutions will be placed on reserve in the engineering library the afternoon the assignment is due. 

NO MAKE-UP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN unless arrangements are made with the instructor before the exam period.

No one is allowed to drop the course after the UNIVERSITY DROP DATE, October 15, 2004.