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Title: 44-107, Operational Thermodynamics 1B
Institution: TAFE Television, Australia

Level:
Certificate, continuing education.

Description:
Compression and expansion of gases, gas laws, Boyle's law, Charles Law, characteristic gas equation, gas constant, isothermal adiabatic and polytrophic processes, specific heat of gases, air compressor elementary principles and cycles of operation, elementary principles and operation of internal combustion engines, indicator diagrams, power developed, specific fuel consumption, elementary qualitative treatment of heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation, effect of insulation upon heat transfer.

Programmes for which this course is required or in which it can be included:

Advanced Certificate of Marine Engineering.


Languages:
English

Media and methods employed: Printed text, face-to-face tutorials, telephone tutorials.
Printed correspondence texts prepared by/for institution, face-to-face tutoring, face-to-face counselling, telephone tutoring, counselling by telephone.

Administrative information:
This subject requires more than 6-8 hours of study per week. Enrolment is valid until 30 November of the year following the year of enrolment. (Enrolment begins on 1 December).


Classification:
070430 PHYSICS
060230 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING

Date: 23 January 1995 bb
Source: 1994 Handbook

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