Video lectures by Pervez Hoodbhoy in English and Urdu
These lectures are suitable for undergraduate level teaching (years 16-20) and provide the conceptual foundations of thermodynamics. Although several examples are worked out here, for a fuller grasp of the subject students should work out at least some problems in the texts recommended below.
Module 2.1
Heat engines and efficiency
Carnot engine
Second law of thermodynamics
Equivalence between Clausius and Kelvin statements
The Carnot engine is universal – proof
Analyzing the Carnot engine
Solved example
Recommended textbooks and materials:
Feynman Lectures in Physics – chapters 44, 45, 46
Principles of Thermodynamics, Jean-Philippe Ansermet and Sylvain D. Brechet
Essential Classical Thermodynamics, Ulf W. Gedde
Problems and Solutions on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, World Scientific
