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The worldwide bestseller Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach brings further refinement to an approach that emphasizes a physical understanding of the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics. The authors offer an engineering textbook that "talks directly to tomorrow's engineers in a simp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Çengel, Yunus A.
Other Authors: Boles, Michael A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, [2008]
Edition:6th ed.
Series:McGraw-Hill series in mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Subjects:
Thermodynamics.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction and basic concepts
  • Energy, energy transfer, and general energy analysis
  • Properties of pure substances
  • Energy analysis of closed systems
  • Mass and energy analysis of control volumes
  • The second law of thermodynamics
  • Entropy
  • Exergy : a measure of work potential
  • Gas power cycles
  • Vapor and combined power cycles
  • Refrigeration cycles
  • Thermodynamic property relations
  • Gas mixtures
  • Gas : vapor mixtures and air-conditioning
  • Chemical reactions
  • Chemical and phase equilibrium
  • Compressible flow
  • Appendix 1 : property tables and charts (SI units)
  • Appendix 2 : property tables and charts (English units)
  • Index.