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Degree course in
Civil and environmental engineering
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Engineering and Architecture

APPLIED PHYSICS 1
cod. 1002185

Academic year 2012/13
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Fisica tecnica industriale (ING-IND/10)
Field
Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
42 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
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Learning objectives

The course aims at providing the fundamentals to address and solve engineering problems of thermodynamics, in the civil and industrial fields.

Prerequisites

Mathematics, Physics.

Course unit content

Applied thermo-dynamics, psychrometry.

Full programme

Thermodynamics. System, property, state. Pressure, temperature, zeroth law. Energy, heat, work. The first law. Expansion and compressibility. Enthalpy and specific heats. Heat engines and refrigerators. Second law. The Clausius inequality. Entropy. Increase-in-entropy principle. Isentropic processes. Carnot’s principle, the Carnot cycle. The p-v-T surface, diagrams (pressure-volume, temperature-entropy, enthalpy-entropy, pressure-enthalpy, temperature-enthalpy). Steam Tables. Politropic process. Ideal gas, equation of state, internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, specific heats. The compressibility factor, real gases and corresponding states, the virial equation of state, the Obert Nelson diagram. Liquids, vapours. General conservation of energy and mass principles for a control volume. Heat exchangers, pump, compressors, turbines, valves. Gas power cycles (Brayton, Otto, Diesel, Stirling, Ericson). Vapour power cycles (Rankine). Refrigeration systems, vapour and gas cycles. Absorption refrigeration. The heat pump. Ideal gas mixture. Composition analysis of gas mixtures. Properties of a mixture of an ideal gas and a vapour. Specific enthalpy J. Wet and dry bulb temperature. The psychrometric chart. Air conditioning processes.

Bibliography

M. Spiga, Fisica Tecnica 1, Esculapio Editore, Bologna
M. Spiga, Esercizi di Termodinamica Applicata, Esculapio Editore, Bologna.

Teaching methods

Lectures and tutorials.

Assessment methods and criteria

Examinations.

Other information

Lecture attendance is recommended