The Mad 12:00am Techsis Rush Options

[Dogmeat]

Thank god I got both the electives I wanted/needed for next semeter ... they only were allowing 18 people per semester to register and I got dicked this last semester...

Woot! Woo! Woo! Woo!

[Spectatrix]

What all do you learn in that class? I'm hoping to finally learn how to derive values for enthalpy/entropy/etc from the hemholtz or maxwell equations or whatever they are ...

We started with typical energy balance stuff using enthalpy and whatnot, mixing of streams, basic 1st & 2nd law stuff.

Then we did equations of state (ideal gas, Berthelot, virial, etc.), which are all the various ways to relate P, R, T, and v. That stuff was pretty easy and fun and used throughout the rest of the course.

Then derivative reductions, which use thermo equations (hemholtz and something else, I think) to come up with relations between thermodynamic quantities... ds/dv at constant T, etc. I used calculators at http://www.macatea.com/workshop/ starting at this point in the class -- that might help you too. Easier than calculating some of the properties by hand via interpolation/extrapolation of tables.

We learned about vugacity and then did stuff on mixed systems, finding properties of compositions.

And there was stoichiometric stuff at the end, looking at combustion and other chemical reactions.