Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics is the science that deals with heat, work and those properties of matter that relate heat to work (VanWylen and Sonntag in Fundamentals of Thermodynamics, Wiley, New York, 1986; Fellinger and Cook in Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics, Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa, 1985; Schmidt in Introduction to Thermal Sciences, Wiley, New York, 1984; Moran in Introduction to Thermal Systems Engineering, Wiley, New York, 2003; Annamalai and Puri in Advanced Thermodynamics Engineering, CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, 2002).