Physics 530: Thermodynamics

SUNY Cortland

Fall 2015

• Instructor
  • Dr. Douglas Armstead
  • Bowers 127
  • 607 753-2919 or x2919
  • douglas.armstead@cortland.edu
  
  
• Meeting
  • Bowers 1119
  • Day: Tuesday and Thursday
  • Time: 6:10-7:30pm
  • Course Syllabus
  
  
• Texts
  • Title: Thermodynamics, an Engineering Approach
  • Author: Yunus Cengel and Michael Boles
  • Edition: 8th
  • ISBN: 0073398179
  
  
  • Title: A Modern Course in Statistical Physics
  • Author: Linda Reichl
  • Edition: 3rd Ed.
  • ISBN: 9783527407828

• Homework
• Course Supplementals
  • Graphs of the compressibility factor of air, Z, forisotherms at or below room temperature and for isotherms above room temperature. With thanks to wikipedia.
  • A paper measuring the heat capacity of aluminum at low temperatures (0.1K < T < 4K).
  • A set of realistic PV curves for four-stroke gasoline and diesel engines.
  • A set of engine animations including four-stroke gasoline, diesel, two stroke otto, turbine (turbojet), and stirling engines (and many others).
  • An article about making turbine blades that will stay strong in an environment several hundred degrees above their melting point.