Atmospheric Thermodynamics

ASME 231 Spring 2021

North Carolina A&T State University

Syllabus

 Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1 (Introduction)

• Lecture 2 (Basic Concepts)

• Lecture 3 (Equation of State of an Ideal Gas)

• Lecture 4 (Mixture of Gases)

• Lecture 5 (Work)

• Lecture 6 (Heat)

• Lecture 7 (Kinetic Theory of Gases)

• Lecture 8 (The First Law of Thermodynamics)

• Lecture 9 (Internal Energy, Specific Heat Capacities, and Enthalpy)

• Lecture 10 (Adiabatic Processes)
• Lecture 11 (Carnot Cycle)
  
• Lecture 12 (The Second Law of Thermodynamics)
  

•  Lecture 13 (Entropy)

•  Lecture 14 (Water-Air system)

•  Lecture 15 (Equation of State of Moist Air)

•  Lecture 16 (Phase Change and Latent Heat)

•  Lecture 17 (The Clausius-Clapeyron Equation)

•  Lecture 18 (Saturated-Adiabatic and Pseudoadiabatic Processes)

•  Lecture 19 (Moist Variables)

•  Lecture 20 (Thermodynamic Diagram)

•  Lecture 21 (Hydrostatic Equilibrium_Geopotential_Scale Height)
  

Labs

•  Lab 1

•  Lab 2

•  Lab 3

•  Lab 4

•  Lab 5

•  Lab 6

•  Lab 7

•  Lab 8