| 1-3 |
Module 01: Fluids [Chapter 15]
- Pressure, variation of pressure with depth
- Buoyancy and Archimedes' principle
- Streamlines, laminar flow and continuity
- Bernoulli's principle
- When flow stops being laminar
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| 3-9 |
Module 02: Temperature, Energy and the First Law [Chapter 16 & 17]
- Temperature and the ``Zeroth'' Law
- Thermometers and Thermal Expansion
- The ideal gas and the kinetic theory of gases
- Heat and Internal Energy
- Specific heat, latent heat and phase changes
- Thermodynamic work and the ``First'' Law
- Adiabatic processes
- Equipartition of energy
- Mechanisms of energy transfer
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| 10-13 |
Module 03: Heat Engines, Entropy and the Second Law [Chapter 18]
- Heat Engines and the Second Law
- Reversible and Irreversible Processes
- The Ideal (``Carnot'') Engine
- Heat Pumps and Refrigerators
- Entropy and the Second Law
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