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Welcome.
My name is Margaret Wooldridge, and I'm
the instructor for the Introduction to
Thermodynamics class.
I wanted to start by giving you a brief
introduction to who I am.
I'm a professor in the Mechanical
Engineering
Department here at the University of
Michigan.
I also hold an appointment in the
Aerospace Engineering Department.
To give you some background on how I spend
my
time, my research interests are in compo,
combustion and propulsion systems.
I also work in the transportation and
stationary power generation.
In particular we're interested in
developing
new methods to improve efficiencies and
reduce
the impact of emissions and pollutants on,
of these systems on the environment.
And in this class we'll be talking about
these areas.
And they are directly relevant to
thermodynamics.
And your thermodynamic skills can be used
to explore these systems.
And we'll show you some of those skills in
this class.
Now, first we need to discuss, what is
thermodynamics all about?
And I have to say this is one of
the most powerful topics that you will
ever explore.
Thermodynamics is the study of
transferring energy.
Obtaining energy, transferring energy, and
applying energy.
So, you can see all sorts of applications
of energy transfer around you.
And we'll develop skills, and analytical
tools that allow us to understand and
quantify those systems.
So to be very specific, we're going to
talk about topics of mass, and energy
conservation principles.
We'll look at first law analysis, and as
they apply to open and closed systems.
We'll investigate and define properties
that allow us to explore these systems.
And we'll look at the behavior and
application
of specific thermodynamic systems at
steady state conditions.
So our course objectives are to
familiarize you with these basic concepts.

The concepts of state relations and

conservation principles.
We're going to teach you how to quantify
the state of simple, pure substances.
Including all three phases, solid, liquid
and gas phases.
I'll teach you how to evaluate energy,
work and heat transfer processes.
And how those processes interact.
We're going to investigate the
conservation
laws for mass and energy systems.
And we'll apply those to example systems
so you can
have some understanding, particularly for
stationary and transportation power
sectors.
What are the units involved, what are the
numbers involved, quantities and scale.
And we'll teach you the application
of process knowledge to analyze complete
systems.
Those are our course objectives.
Here are the course outcomes.
So after taking this course, you should be
able to identify subsystems.
You should be able to indicate whether or
not there's work transfer, heat transfer
and what's the
important of the thermodynamic state for
those systems in
terms of temperature, pressure, density,
and other thermodynamic variables.
Given a set of properties you should be
able to
identify the phase and the remaining
properties for a substance.
If I give you a physical setup, for
example if it's an
engine, a jet engine, or if it's a stove,
you should be able
to determine what are the work and heat
transfer mechanisms, and what
are the most reasonable approximations
that you can make to analyse this system.
Once you have that physical setup, the
device, and a process you should be
able to compute, to quantify the rates of
work and heat transfer as well.
You should be able
to formulate an ideal approximation, as
well as understand
how an actual system might differ from an
ideal system.
And given an actual device, you should
be able to correspondingly create an ideal
device.
So we can have both real and actual
systems and we should understand
quantitatively what are

the differences between real and actual

systems, and
we should understand how energy processes
affect the environment.
To help us understand and accomplish these
course objectives, we're going to
use some references and tools that are
freely available on the Internet.
So those are listed here on this slide.
The first is the US Department of Energy
Fundamental Handbook on Thermodynamics,
Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow.
In reality, there are three handbooks here
in this series, we
are only going to use the thermodynamics
portion of that set.
There's a thermodynamics and
chemistry second edition that was written
by Howard DeVoe.
He provided that textbook free on his
website, and that link is shown here.
And the third resource that we'll use is
an online calculator for steam,
in other words water properties which
includes
also properties for carbon dioxide and
ammonia.
There are many online calculators that are
available to you.
This just happens to be the one that I
chose for this course.
You're welcome to use whatever tools you
find the
easiest for you to accomplish the goals of
this class.
The weekly reading assignments are what
we'll discuss
next, and they're shown in this course
schedule.
So all the reading material is from those
two reference texts, the US
Department of Energy Thermodynamics
handbook, and the
Thermodynamics and Chemistry handbook by
Professor Devoe.
So the chapters and reading pages
are listed here.
And the topics are listed here, that we'll
be
going through throughout the eight weeks
of this course.
We're going to start with the basic so
we'll need some tools in
order for us to analyze these
thermodynamic systems, these energy
transfer systems.
And that includes concepts, definitions,
and units.
We'll have a good discussion of units very
early on in this course.

Once we have that information we can start

defining thermodynamic properties.
And in particular we'll look at how we can
measure temperature and pressure.
How we can describe the states of
different systems and
processes and pathways that connect us to
different thermodynamic states.
After that, we'll discuss the energy of a
system, the
first law of thermodynamics, which is the
conservation of energy,
heat and work transfer, energy analysis of
closed and open
systems, and how those energy transfer
systems use energy, enthalpy,
and internal energy.
And that will be it.
We'll do many examples throughout the
class, so that you can
have some idea of how to apply these
tools, and this
reading material is really meant to
support the lectures and the
content that we have right now, that we
provide in these lectures.
Some frequently asked questions, we'll try
and answer those right now.
What are the prerequisites for taking this
class?
You should have some introductory
background in chemistry and
physics and calculus.
This is going to be important for
understanding some of the thermodynamic
principles, and the
calculus is necessary for some of the
anal, some of the analysis that we do.
Specifically you should understand how to
integrate
or differentiate a quest differentiate an
equation.
What will this class prepare me for?
Well, thermodynamics in the academic world
is a
prerequisite for many other follow-on
courses, like heat
transfer, internal combustion engines,
stationary power
generation, propulsion and gas dynamics
are just
a few classes that build on the foundation
we will establish in thermodynamics.
In the real world, energy is one of
the top challenges we face in a global
society.
We know that energy demands are deeply
tied to the
other major challenges which include
poverty, and health, and clean water.

And understanding how energy systems work

is key
to understanding how to meet global needs
for energy.
And because energy demands are only going
to increase,
this course provides a foundation for many
rewarding professional careers.
Now, based on what we just briefly talked
about, how thermodynamics is the study of
energy.
Transforming, applying, obtaining energy.
I'd like you to pause for a moment and
look around you, or maybe look out
the window and identify five systems where
you
think energy and energy transfer
mechanisms are important.
And when we come back we'll discuss a few
of those examples.
Thank you and welcome to the class.