This revised and fully updated text, now in its Second Edition, continues to provide a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of classical thermodynamics starting with the most elementary ideas of heat and temperature. The book also focuses on practical applications of thermodynamic processes and equips students with simple techniques of solving engineering problems. The book begins with the basic concepts of properties of matter, work, mechanical energy, potential energy and temperature, and then moves on to explain the laws of thermodynamics. It continues to discuss in detail the auxiliary functions, properties of substances, thermodynamics of combustion, ideal cycles and internal combustion engine cycles. The book concludes with a chapter on Brayton Cycle. Table of Contents CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1 WHAT IS THERMODYNAMICS? Chapter 2 CONCEPTS OF THERMODYNAMICS Chapter 3 WORK AND MECHANICAL ENERGY Chapter 4 TEMPERATURE AND ITS EMPIRICAL SCALES Chapter 5 THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS Chapter 6 ENERGY (FIRST LAW) EQUATION FOR FLOW SYSTEMS Chapter 7 THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS Chapter 8 AUXILIARY FUNCTIONS Chapter 9 PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES Chapter 10 THERMODYNAMICS OF COMBUSTION Chapter 11 IDEAL CYCLES Chapter 12 INTERNAL COMBUSTION (I.C.) ENGINE CYCLES Chapter 13 BRAYTON CYCLE AND ITS OTHER NAMES Appendices A. Additional Problems B. Explanatory Notes C. Problem-Solving D. Some Mathematical Principles E. Other Formulations of Thermodynamics F. Steam and R?12 Tables Bibliography ? Index