Thermodynamics Made Easy – Module 2.1 (English)

THERMODYNAMICS

Video lectures by Pervez Hoodbhoy in English and Urdu

These lectures are suitable for undergraduate level teaching (years 16-20) and provide the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics. Although several examples are worked out here, for a fuller grasp of the subject students should work out at least some problems in the texts recommended below.

Module 2.1

• Heat engines and efficiency
• Carnot engine
• Second law of thermodynamics
• Equivalence between Clausius and Kelvin statements
• The Carnot engine is universal – proof
• Analyzing the Carnot engine
• Solved example

Recommended textbooks and materials:

1. Feynman Lectures in Physics – chapters 44, 45, 46
2. Principles of Thermodynamics, Jean-Philippe Ansermet and Sylvain D. Brechet
3. Essential Classical Thermodynamics, Ulf W. Gedde
4. Problems and Solutions on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, World Scientific