11 Lecture Notes

TOPICS COVERED First law of Thermodynamics Application of First Law in different processes. Isobaric Process. Isochoric Process. Isothermal Process. Adiabatic Process. Cyclic Process. Class Notes

TOPICS COVERED Internal Energy Heat Work Class Notes

TOPICS COVERED Newton’s Law of Cooling. Numerical Problems on Newton’s Law of Cooling. Spectral Distribution of Black Body Radiation. Wien’ Displacement Law. Numerical Problems. Class Notes

TOPICS COVERED Radiation as Mode of Heat Transfer. Important characteristics of radiation. Transmittance, Reflectance and Absorptance. Perfect Black Body. Total Emissive Power. Spectral Emissive Power. Emissivity. Prevost’s Theory of heat Excahange. Class Notes

TOPICS COVERED Parallel Combination of Thermal Conductors. Numerical problems. Searle’s Method of Determination of Conductivity of Good Conductors. Class Notes

TOPICS COVERED Rate of Heat Flow in Steady State. Comparison of Thermal conduction and Electrical Conduction. Thermal Resistance. Combination of Conductors. Series combination of conductors. Parallel combination of conductors. Numerical Problems. Class Notes

TOPICS COVERED Latent Heat. Latent Heat of Fusion. Latent Heat of vapourisation. Numerical problems. Class Notes