Introduction to Thermodynamic Processes
- Use the reading, 'First Law of Thermodynamics and some Simple Processes' by OpenStaxCollege, BCCampus Open Education, that introduces various thermodynamic processes and provides a few exercises to understand them.
- Use the reading, 'First Law of Thermodynamics and some Simple Processes' to get introduced to common thermodynamic processes like isobaric, isovolumetric (or isochoric), isothermal and adiabatic processes.
- Thermodynamic processes are representation of the change of the state variables of a system. They are usually plotted using any two state variables as the X and Y axes.
- The most commonly used plot is the P-V diagram, where Pressure and Volume are the two axes. However, any two thermodynamic state variables can be used as axes in a 'Thermodynamic diagram'.
- Use the examples given in text to understand these processes and their variables better.
First Law of Thermodynamics
Reading by OpenStaxCollege, BCCampus Open Education