MECH 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Intensive And Extensive Properties, Control Volume, Specific Volume

• School: CSU
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Course: MECH 237
• Professor: Daniel B.Olsen

Document Summary

Conservation of energy principle: states that during an interaction, energy can change from one form to another but the total amount of energy remains constant. st. Law of thermodynamics: an expression of the conservation of energy; energy. It asserts that energy is a thermodynamic property. nd. Law of thermodynamics: energy has quality as well as quantity and actual. 2 processes occur in the direction of decreasing quality of energy. Classical thermodynamics: macroscopic approach to thermodynamics; does not require knowledge of the behavior of individual particles. Statistical thermodynamics: microscopic approach; based on average behavior of large groups of individual particles. A graduate level course; the result of which will be only used in a qualitative sense in this course. Primary/fundamental dimensions: basic dimensions such as mass m, length l, time t, and temperature t. Secondary/derived dimensions: expressed in terms of primary dimensions such as velocity v, energy e, and volume v.