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Most problems in thermo involve a system
that interacts with its surroundings
in the form of heat, work, and/or mass transfer. A thermodynamic system
is anything (or even nothing) within a well-defined volume called the
control volume; everything external to the system is the
surroundings. Because of this broad definition, the key to simplify a system
problem is to appropriately identify and classify the system. Examples
can be found in Tutorial,
Problems and Slide Show. |
| States |
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Problems involving evaluation of thermodynamic and extended
states, a snapshot of the variables or attributes (called properties) that defines
a local equilibrium. A typical
problem may involve finding a particular property
when the state is given in terms of other properties. Examples
can be found in Tutorial,
Problems and Slide Show. |
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This Unit Converter daemon handles
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