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For undergraduate courses in Thermodynamics.

Stressing the fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat power, the seventh edition of this widely-used and highly-regarded text utilizes calculus to cover the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, the ideal gas, vapor and gas power cycles, refrigeration, and heat transfer. Updated to increase its ease of use and improve clarity throughout, it includes a Windows-based computer disk that encourages learning.

• NEW - Steam Tables Disk—Included with the text; expands on the properties of steam, air, other gases, and refrigerants, as well as psychometrics.

  • Provides students with an enhanced learning experience.

• NEW - Extension of the analysis of the Rankine cycle—Covers the Rankine cycle and the effects of regeneration that includes both closed and open feedwater heaters and an additional reheat cycle.

  • Helps students better understand this important concept.

• NEW - Additional problems—Involving the non-flow work integral and thermal analysis of the reciprocating compressor.

  • Increases students' comprehension of the material by providing more practice.

• NEW - Analysis of the maximum work Brayton cycle.

  • Provides students with an analysis that enhances their calculus skills.

• NEW - Inclusion of metric unit equations for convection coefficients.

  • Gives students an enhanced text that includes more material for better understanding.

• NEW - Descriptions and discussions—Includes a description of the heat pipe and its functions; a discussion of the cooling of electronic components; and state-of-the-art alternative energy sources, such as fuel cells, solar energy, and wind power.

  • Helps students understand these newer concepts in the field of thermodynamics.

• Photos and diagrams—Includes photos of the latest equipment.

  • Aids students' comprehension by providing exciting visuals.

• Extensive pedagogy—Includes practice questions, review, key terms, equations, and problems.

  • Allows students to self-test for comprehension review. Enables instructors to assign ready-made questions for homework and exams.

• Comprehensive appendices.

  • Provides students with a text that can be used for future reference.

• Steam Tables Disk—Included with the text; expands on the properties of steam, air, other gases, and refrigerants, as well as psychometrics.

  • Provides students with an enhanced learning experience.

• Extension of the analysis of the Rankine cycle—Covers the Rankine cycle and the effects of regeneration that includes both closed and open feedwater heaters and an additional reheat cycle.

  • Helps students better understand this important concept.

• Additional problems—Involving the non-flow work integral and thermal analysis of the reciprocating compressor.

  • Increases students' comprehension of the material by providing more practice.

• Analysis of the maximum work Brayton cycle.

  • Provides students with an analysis that enhances their calculus skills.

• Inclusion of metric unit equations for convection coefficients.

  • Gives students an enhanced text that includes more material for better understanding.

• Descriptions and discussions—Includes a description of the heat pipe and its functions; a discussion of the cooling of electronic components; and state-of-the-art alternative energy sources, such as fuel cells, solar energy, and wind power.

  • Helps students understand these newer concepts in the field of thermodynamics.

NOTE: (Each Chapter begins with Learning Goals and ends with a Review, Key Terms, Equations, Questions, and Problems.)

Symbols.


 1. Fundamental Concepts.


 2. Work, Energy, and Heat.


 3. The First Law of Thermodynamics.


 4. The Second Law of Thermodynamics.


 5. Properties of Liquids and Gases.


 6. The Ideal Gas.


 7. Mixtures of Ideal Gases.


 8. Vapor Power Cycles.


 9. Gas Power Cycles.


10. Refrigeration.


11. Heat Transfer.


Appendix 1: References.


Appendix 2: Answers to Even-Numbered Problems.


Appendix 3: Supplemental Tables.


Index.

Thermodynamics (Engineering Technology and Industrial Management)

Stressing the fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat power, the seventh edition covers the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, the ideal gas, vapor and gas power cycles, refrigeration, and heat transfer.

• Computerized steam tables in DOS format for IBM-type computers
• A table of contents for the supplemental tables in the appendix
• Clarification of the usage of pound mass units and the correction factor g_c
• A simplified discussion of the Rankine cycle with regeneration
• Heat pump operation and switching between heating and cooling modes
• Additional heat transfer problems with a section on combined modes of heat transfer

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