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For courses in Thermodynamics, Thermodynamics for Engineers, and Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer. Designed specifically for use in mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, and engineering technology programs, this popular text presents the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics and their practical applications to heat power, heat transfer, and heating and air conditioning. It addresses real-world problems in engineering and design —without stressing abstract mathematics — and uses a unique calculus/non-calculus based approach that ensures a rigorous treatment of each subject appropriate to the mathematics level of specific classes.

• NEW - Provides additional example problems and approx. 60 practice problems at the ends of chapters, listed by section. Pg.___

• NEW - Adds a discussion on Problem Solving. Pg.___

• NEW - Includes a section on Radiation Temperature Measuring Devices. Pg.___

• NEW - Expands tables and charts in appendices. Pg.___

• Develops concepts and example problems in contexts that are based on “real world” applications. Pg.___

• Offers unique optional Calculus for Clarity sections for students who have a background in differential and integral calculus. Pg.___

• Provides a complete introduction to conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer; and examines application of thermodynamic principles to power-producing and consuming mechanical devices such as nozzles, pumps, turbines, gas and steam engines, heat pumps, and refrigeration systems. Pg.___

• Features an eight-chapter treatment of heat power /combustion/transfer and HVAC that is one of the most extensive available in a text at this level. Pg.___

• Contains numerous worked examples, keyed to chapter-end practice problems (over 800 total) that range in difficulty from easy to very challenging.

• Uses a consistent system of symbols and units and makes equal use of SI and English units in practice problems, example problems, and in thermodynamic charts and property tables. Pg.___

• Lists key concepts at the beginning and end of each chapter. Pg.___

• Provides convenient conversion tables and variables lists. Pg.___

• Includes a software package in the Instructor's Manual for doing cycles, combustion and radiation Heat Transfer problems with parametric analyses.

• Provides additional example problems and approx. 60 practice problems at the ends of chapters, listed by section. Pg.___

• Adds a discussion on Problem Solving. Pg.___

• Includes a section on Radiation Temperature Measuring Devices. Pg.___

• Expands tables and charts in appendices. Pg.___

 1. Introduction.


 2. The Thermodynamic System.


 3. Work, Heat, and Reversibility.


 4. Conservation of Mass and the First Law of Thermodynamics.


 5. Equations of State and Calorimetry.


 6. Processes.


 7. Heat Engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.


 8. Availability and Useful Work.


 9. The Internal Combustion Engine and the Otto and Diesel Cycles.


10. Gas Turbines, Jet Propulsion and the Brayton Cycle.


11. Steam Power Generation and the Rankine Cycle.


12. Refrigeration and Heat Pumps.


13. Mixtures.


14. Reacting Mixtures and Combustion.


15. Heat Transfer.


16. Heating and Air Conditioning.


17. Other Power Devices.


Appendix A. Mathematical Relationships.


Appendix B. Tables and Charts.


Appendix C. Selected References.


Appendix D. Thermodynamic Notation and List of Symbols.


Answers to Selected Problems.


Index.

Thermodynamics (Mech / Manufacturing / Industrial Tech)
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