Thermodynamics and Heat Power - Hardcover

Granet, Irving

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0139149201 ISBN 13: 9780139149207

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1990

Synopsis

Standard undergraduate or technical college-level text containing no calculus. Revises the third edition of 1985 mainly in pedagogic and heuristic terms. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

From the Publisher

Using calculus for enrichment throughout and updated to include the latest technological advances, this practical and user-friendly text stresses the fundamental principles of thermodynamics and heat power, offering comprehensive coverage on such topics as elementary kinetic theory of gases, internal energy, applications of the First Law of Thermodynamics, the Carnot cycle, thermodynamic properties of steam, entropy changes of the ideal gas, air-water vapor mixtures, nuclear reactor power cycles, diesel engines, refrigeration, heat transfer and more.

From the Back Cover

Stressing the fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat power, the seventh edition covers the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, the ideal gas, vapor and gas power cycles, refrigeration, and heat transfer.

Features include:

• Computerized steam tables in DOS format for IBM-type computers
• A table of contents for the supplemental tables in the appendix
• Clarification of the usage of pound mass units and the correction factor gc
• A simplified discussion of the Rankine cycle with regeneration
• Heat pump operation and switching between heating and cooling modes
• Additional heat transfer problems with a section on combined modes of heat transfer

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0139149201
• ISBN 13: 9780139149207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 768