Thermal physics (4 cr)
Code: 5131006-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 28.11.2018 - 15.01.2019
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 07.01.2019 - 28.02.2019
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 4 cr
- Local portion
- 4 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Engineering and Business
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 30 - 50
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology
- Teachers
- Juha Leimu
- Course
- 5131006
Evaluation scale
H-5
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.