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Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, 2nd Edition
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Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, 2nd Edition

by Ali Turan, D. Winterbone
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
578 pages
19h 27m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
Content preview from Advanced Thermodynamics for Engineers, 2nd Edition
1.4 TEMPERATURE SCALES
There are two different scales of temperature:
The continuous scale of temper ature is based on the Second Law of thermodynamics and is
independent of the thermometric substance.
The discontinuous scales of temperature are defined as the International Temperature Scale
(ITS-90). The Celsius (or Centigrade) and Fahrenheit scales are the original ITS scales.
1.5 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SYSTEMS AND SURROUNDINGS
A system can interact with its surroundings through transfers across the system boundaries. For a
closed system there can be no mass flow across the system boundaries, and the only possible
interactions are by two mechanisms: ...
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