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Thermal physics (4 cr)

Code: 5131006-3001

General information


Enrollment

28.11.2018 - 15.01.2019

Timing

07.01.2019 - 28.02.2019

Number of ECTS credits allocated

4 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Engineering and Business

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

30 - 50

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology

Teachers

  • Juha Leimu

Groups

  • PEYTES18A
  • PEYTES18
  • EYMODEnergiaJaVirtaus

Objective

The target of the module is to familiarize student to apply thermal physics and thermodynamics to dimensioning thermal machines and processes.
After completing the study module, student can:
- calculate the thermal expansion of matter
- determine the state of gas and vapor, and calculate their changes
- determine energy balance
- determine the thermal efficiency of heat engines and power coefficient of heat pump and cooling machine
- evaluate the energy efficiency of common machines.

Content

- - pressure, temperature, measurement
- thermal expansion
- heat capacity
- ideal gas law, liquid and its vapor, change of state
- laws of thermodynamics, energy balance, thermal efficiency
- principles and cycles of heat engines and pumps
- properties of moisturized air, principles of air conditioning.

Evaluation scale

H-5