Description
Pearson Thermodynamics by S C Gupta
This text is designed for the first course on thermodynamics offered to undergraduate students of mechanical engineering. The book presents the Macroscopic (classical) and Microscopic (Statistical) thermodynamics including applications to power cycles, and aims to create an analytical mind in the reader to solve problems.
Salient Features
Zeroth, first and second law of thermodynamics
Non-reactive and reactive gas mixtures with their second law analysis
Analysis of binary mixtures and psychrometry
Chapter on working substances – discusses the behavior of a substance in its different phases and the role of the two-dimensional charts in a cycle
First and second law analysis of combined cycle adopted at Anta Gas Plant
Pedagogy includes solved numerical problems, review questions, practice problems, and multiple-choice questions, with answers
Appendix containing 97 additional solved problems