Open Education Resources (OER): Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics

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This is a project that extends the original e-textbook written by Dr. Claire Yu Yan in UBC Okanagan campus:Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics. The main goals for this project are as follows:

(i) To provide students with a list of questions that can be done in their laptops with the help of some Python packages such as CoolProp, numpy and matplotlib.

(ii) To reinforce the concepts learnt from e-textbook and to get a better appreciation of how to use digital tools to do perform thermodynamic calculations.

(iii) To provide a starting point for Thermodynamics courses in other disciplines to adopt a more computational approach for their courses.

Acknowledgements

• Acknowledgements

Getting Started

• Getting Started: Introduction to Jupyter and Python!
• Basic operations inside Jupyter
• Defining variables: Properties of Ideal Gases as use case

Modules

• 1. Basic Concepts and Definitions
• 2. Thermodynamic Properties of a Pure Substance
• 3. Ideal and Real Gases
• 4. The First Law of Thermodynamics for Closed Systems
• 5. The First Law of Thermodynamics for a Control Volume
• 6. Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Interactive Diagrams

• Property Diagrams