PH313 Thermodynamics

Review topics for exam #2

Ideal gas

Eq of state, heat capacities, gamma (monatomic, diatomic)

Work, heat, internal energy

Adiabatic, isothermal, isochoric, isobaric

P-V diagrams

speed of sound

Perpetual motion machines

Entropy change for isothermal processes

Engines

Def of W, Q_H, Q_L

Reservoirs

Efficiency: max efficiency, and general efficiency

2^nd law - engine form and entropy form

Carnot cycle, Stirling cycle, Otto cycle, & arbitrary cycle

Info from XY diagram

Refrigerator

Contrast to engine

coefficient of performance

2^nd Law, refrigerator form

(Ir)reversibility

Requirements for reversibility

Types of irreversibility

Efficiency of irrev engine