Hi! Welcome to the website for the 8:30AM and 10:30AM section of ME 200, Thermodynamics I, Fall 2008! I will try and post useful material for you to download or view here. Most importantly, pdf files of the Powerpoint slides I plan to use in class can be downloaded here. I plan to try and use the Tablet PC to present this material and hence anticipate "writing" on these notes during lecture. Hence, you will find some strategically placed "blanks" throughout these notes, in particular, solutions to example problems will be worked out in class to encourage your participation and aid in the learning process.
Well I hope you enjoyed your first day of school and our first class - I did. Your HW is due at the beginning of the Friday lecture you are registered for. So if you are registered for the 8:30 section, you cannot turn in your HW to me in the 10:30 section despite the fact that I am teaching both sections. This is to be fair and equitable to all students. Please do try and attend the section you are registered for because both sections may not start/end at the same point so you may miss something. Please do start reading Chapter 1 TODAY and begin to look at the assigned problems even though we barely scratched the surface of the material in today's class...I anticipate we will cover more ground in lecture two - see you then!
9/8/08: Hello. Hope you are enjoying the class so far and more importantly I hope you are learning something and getting excited about thermodynamics. We are just finishing Chapter 2 and starting Chapter 3 this week. Please re-ahead and try not to wait to the last minute to start your homework problems even if we have not yet covered the material in the lecture. The last few lectures have focused on building the raw materials that we need to confidently state the 1st law of thermodynamics which we will do today. Those concepts are related to the energy of a system being made up of internal, kinetic, and potential (for the most part), and ways the energy of a system can be changed by interactions with the surroundings, namely heat transfer and work (for a closed (fixed mass) system). Also, we had our statement of the first law on day 1 of this class which states that energy of a system can neither be created nor destroyed during an interaction with the surroundings it can only change form. Now that we have some ideas about the energy of a system and how it can change forms we can state the first law....
9/15/08: As mentioned in class today, Exam 1 is one week from this Wednesday. As discussed on the first day of class, you need to have your book of tables to bring to the exam. You can also bring your equation sheet (provided below). Both the tables and equation sheet have to be "clean" - that is, do not write in them at all! Please begin your preparations for the exam this week by focusing on the HW this week to make sure you fully understand the problems you are solving.
9/19/08: Please note that I inserted 3 or 4 slides into the week 4 packet and reposted the PDF file. So go ahead and print off those extra and insert them in your already printed packet - we will cover those slides today. I also posted week 5 notes which we may or may not get totally through since there are only 2 days of lecture next week. For next Wednesday night's exam, both Division 1 and Division 2 will be taking their exam in CL50, that is, if you are in either of my two sections head to CL50 by 8PM with your thermo. number, equation sheet, book of tables, calculator, pen or pencil/eraser, and your brain filled with organized thermodynamics. Good luck! Keep in mind there will be a review/practice session during regularly scheduled class next Wednesday - of courses it is optional so sleeping in might be a better option with an 8PM exam - your call.
10/07/08: Hi. Just a remind exam 2 is coming up on October 29 - same time, same place. BE SURE TO HAVE YOUR BOOK OF TABLES for this exam! Also, start to read Chapter 5 regarding introductory material on the 2nd law of thermodynamics as we will start this material next week and it will be on the second exam along with 1st law analysis of control volumes. See you tomorrow morning...
10/28/08: Exam 2 is tomorrow nite from 8-9PM and Div. 1 and 2 are in EE129. Don't forget to bring your book of tables, equation sheet, pen or pencil, and calculator. Review session during regular class time tomorrow. See link below for recent interesting article related to second law of thermo.
11/06/08: Exam 2 will most likely not be returned until Monday. Also below please find a set of slides for tomorrow's lecture that includes a brief summary of class to date and summary of Chapter 6 together with a few problem statements we will solve in class tomorrow. Also, I have combined slides for Week 12 through 14 into a single pdf file available for downloading below. I may make a few changes over the next few weeks but more or less this is the material we will attempt to cover through the end of the class. See you tomorrow morning.
11/13/08: Exam 3 will be next Wednesday 8-9PM as per the syllabus/schedule. Division 1 and 2 will be in WTHR 200. There will NOT be a review session during the 8:30 or 10:30 lecture sessions since we reviewed Ch. 6 and worked examples last week and covered Ch. 8 material this week. Speaking of Ch. 8, Exam 3 will cover Chapter 6 and 8.1-8.3 as mentioned in class on Monday and Wednesday.
11/17/08: Just a reminder you can bring your book of tables, equation sheet, pen/pencil, and calculator to the exam this Wednesday evening. As per the syllabus, please make sure your book of tables and equation sheet are CLEAN (no writing in them). If you need a new equation sheet you can print one from the website. Thanks.
11/17/08: In case I forget to mention it on Friday, I will be out of the office next Monday on work-related travel. Since it is the Monday before Thanksgiving holiday and since we are a couple of lectures ahead of schedule I plan to cancel next Monday (11/24) lecture. Thanks.
Here you can download the syllabus, course policy, and other official class related material.
I will attempt to post pdf files of the Powerpoint slides I plan to present in class for the following week. Please let me know if you have trouble downloading or viewing any of these files. Thank you.
