Different types of work, including expansion/compression work, flow work, and shaft work, as well as various methods of heat transfer - convection, conduction, and radiation.
Temperature and Heat: Describes the basic concepts of temperature and heat, and how they relate to thermodynamics.
First Law of Thermodynamics: Explains the conservation of energy law in thermodynamics, and how it applies to systems.
Work and Heat Transfer: Describes the different types of work and the various ways in which heat can transfer between systems, including convection and radiation.
Thermodynamic Processes: Discusses the different types of thermodynamic processes, including isobaric, isothermal, adiabatic, and more.
Ideal Gas Law: Covers the basic ideal gas law equation, as well as the different ways in which it can be used to solve thermodynamic problems.
Internal Energy: Describes the concept of internal energy in thermodynamics, and how it relates to work.
Entropy: Covers the concept of entropy as it relates to thermodynamics, including the second law of thermodynamics.
Thermal Efficiency: Explains the concept of thermal efficiency, and how it can be used to measure the efficiency of energy transfer between systems.
Carnot Cycle: Discusses the Carnot cycle, which is a theoretical thermodynamic cycle that can be used for studying the efficiency of heat engines.
Heat Engines: Covers the different types of heat engines, including internal combustion engines and steam engines, and how they work.
Heat Pumps: Describes the concept of heat pumps, which can be used to transfer heat from one system to another.
Second Law of Thermodynamics: Explores the second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases over time.
Gibbs Free Energy: Describes the concept of Gibbs free energy, which is a measure of the amount of energy available to do work in a system.
Statistical Thermodynamics: Explains the use of statistical methods in thermodynamics, including the Boltzmann distribution.
Phase Transitions: Covers the different types of phase transitions, including melting, boiling, and sublimation, and how they relate to thermodynamics.
Adiabatic work: Work done on or by a system without any heat transfer taking place.
Boundary work: Work done due to a change in the size or shape of the boundary of a system.
Electrical work: Work done due to the flow of electric current through a system.
Shaft work: Work done by a rotating shaft due to the torque applied on it.
Expansion work: Work done due to the expansion of a gas or fluid against a constant pressure.
Stirring work: Work done due to the mixing or stirring of two or more components in a system.
Compression work: Work done due to compressing a gas or fluid against a constant pressure.
Gravitational work: Work done due to the movement of a system against the gravitational force.
Frictional work: Work done due to the friction between two surfaces in contact.
Magnetic work: Work done due to the interaction of a magnetic field with a magnetic material.
Surface tension work: Work done due to the change in the surface area of a liquid.
Radiative work: Work done due to the emission or absorption of radiation by a system.
Isochoric work: Work done at a constant volume.
Isobaric work: Work done at a constant pressure.
Isothermal work: Work done at a constant temperature.
Heat of fusion: Heat required to melt a solid into a liquid at a constant temperature and pressure.
Heat of vaporization: Heat required to vaporize a liquid into a gas at a constant temperature and pressure.
Sensible heat: Heat required to change the temperature of a substance without a change in state.
Latent heat: Heat required to change the state of a substance without a change in temperature.
Heat of reaction: Heat absorbed or released during a chemical reaction at constant temperature and pressure.