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WEC 212 Basic Thermodynamics

ND2 levelEngineering & Technology9 topics

WEC 212 covers 9 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Temperature and empirical thermometry
  2. Thermal energy
  3. Thermodynamic systems and work transfer
  4. First law of thermodynamics
  5. Second law of thermodynamics
  6. Entropy and isentropic efficiency
  7. Properties of pure substances
  8. Ideal gas laws
  9. Fuels and combustion

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Temperature and empirical thermometry

Temperature is the quantitative measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance, and empirical thermometry uses the predictable change of a physical property with temperature to construct a thermometer.

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