ME 500 Thermodynamics (3 cr.)
Prerequisites:	ME 301
Textbooks:	K. Wark, Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
Description:	The empirical, physical basis of the laws of thermodynamics. Availability concepts and applications. Properties and relations between properties in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. The criteria of equilibrium. Application to a variety of systems and problems including phase and reaction equilibrium.
Goals:	To enhance the student's understanding of problems involving energy and to increase the student's analytical skills and ability to master the inner workings of complex thermodynamic problems.
Outcomes:
Topics:	1. Review of the first law of thermodynamics, transient flow (1 week)   2. Review of the second law, entropy production (1 week).   3. Availability, irreversibility, effectiveness, cycle analysis (1 week)   4. Equations of state, acentric factor (1 week)   5. General thermodynamic relations, phase changes, Joule-Thompson effect (1 week)   6. Third law, Debye equation (1 week)   7. Thermochemistry, reaction availability (1 week)   8. Equilibrium constant, chemical potential (1 week)   9. Partial properties, fugacity, ideal solutions, equilibrium criteria, phase rule, vapor-liquidequilibrium,       Raoult's law, P vs. y, T vs. y diagrams,binary mixtures (4 weeks) 10. Vapor pressure, boiling point elevation, freezing point depression (1 week). 11. Osmotic pressure (1 week).