Carnot cycle Reversed Carnot cycle, Performance. Statements of second law and its corollaries. UNIT II SECOND LAW AND AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS First law of thermodynamics –application to closed and open systems – steady and unsteady flow processes. Zeroth law of thermodynamics – concept of temperature and thermal equilibrium– relationship between temperature scales –new temperature scales.
Displacement work and other modes of work.
Heat and work transfer, definition and comparison, sign convention. Quasi-static, reversible and irreversible processes. Thermodynamic Equilibrium State, path and process. Intensive and extensive, total and specific quantities. Basic concepts - concept of continuum, comparison of microscopic and macroscopic approach.
