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Temperature.: Thermodynamics Large Scale Response Propulsion Systems High Speed Flows Zeroth Law
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Thermodynamicsisabranchofphysicsthatdealswiththeenergyandworkofasystem.Thermodynamicsdealsonlywith
thelargescaleresponseofasystemthatwecanobserveandmeasureinexperiments.Inaerodynamics,wearemost
interestedinthethermodynamicsofpropulsionsystemsandhighspeedflows.
TheZerothLawofThermodynamicsintroducestheconceptofthermodynamicequilibrium,inwhichtwoobjectshave
thesametemperature.Ifwebringtwoobjectsthatareinitiallyatdifferenttemperaturesintophysicalcontact,they
eventuallyachievethermalequilibrium.Duringtheprocessofreachingthermalequilibrium,heatistransferredbetweenthe
objects.TheamountofheattransferreddeltaQisproportionaltothetemperaturedifferencedeltaTbetweentheobjects
andtheheatcapacitycoftheobject.
deltaQ=c*deltaT
Theheatcapacityisaconstantthattellshowmuchheatisaddedperunittemperaturerise.Thevalueoftheconstantis
differentfordifferentmaterials.Heatisalwaystransferredfromtheobjectatthehighertemperaturetotheobjectwiththe
lowertemperature.
Foragas,theheattransferisrelatedtoachangeintemperature.Thetemperature,pressure,andvolumeofthegas
determinethestateofthegas.Heatingagaschangesthestateofthegas.Butthestateofagascanbechangedina
widevarietyofways.Onanotherslide,weshowhowworkdoneonagasalsochangesthestateofthegas.Theamountof
workthatagascandodependsonboththeinitialandfinalstatesandontheprocessusedtomakethechange.Inthe
sameway,theamountofheattransferredinchangingthestateofagasalsodependsontheinitialandfinalstates
andtheexactprocessusedtochangethestate.Differentprocessesresultindifferentamountsofheattransferand
work.TheeffectsofbothheatflowandworkarecombinedintheFirstLawofThermodynamics.
Therearesomethermodynamicprocessesinwhichthereisnoheattransfer.Engineerscallthistypeofaprocessan
adiabaticprocessandtherearesimpleequationswhichrelatethepressureandtemperatureofagasforanadiabatic
process.
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