Lec 1 | MIT 5.60 Thermodynamics & Kinetics, Spring 2008
Lecture 1: State of a system, 0th law, equation of state. View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/5-60S08 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More ...
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The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high-quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. PROFESSOR: Thermodynamics, all right, let's start. Thermodynamics is the science of the flow of heat. So, thermo is heat, and dynamics is the motion of heat. Thermodynamics was developed largely beginning in the 1800's, at the time of the Industrial Revolution. So, taming of steel. The beginning of generating power by burning fossil fuels. The beginning of the problems with CO2 and [NOISE OBSCURES] global warming. In fact, it's interesting to note that the first calculation on the impa...
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The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high-quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. PROFESSOR: Thermodynamics, all right, let's start. Thermodynamics is the science of the flow of heat. So, thermo is heat, and dynamics is the motion of heat. Thermodynamics was developed largely beginning in the 1800's, at the time of the Industrial Revolution. So, taming of steel. The beginning of generating power by burning fossil fuels. The beginning of the problems with CO2 and [NOISE OBSCURES] global warming. In fact, it's interesting to note that the first calculation on the impa...
