MEC132   Matter, Flow and Energy   (20 credits)

Description

The first part of this course provides an overview of the fundamental principles of the behaviour of solids, liquids and gases that are essential to an engineer. The broad areas introduced are thermodynamics, fluid flow and mechanics, and students will encounter the physical basis of important properties, their evaluation and application to practical examples. The course then teaches the inter-relationship between pressure, flow and temperature and how this affects the design, performance and energy terms of engineering components and systems. Irreversibility, both from the point of friction and entropy change will be examined both qualitatively and quantitatively. Finally, examples of energy conversion in the form of power cycles will be provided.

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