GATE Syllabus for Thermodynamics (XE-E)

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GATE Syllabus Section 1: Basic Concepts:

Thermodynamic systems (closed and open); thermodynamic properties and equilibrium; Continuum and macroscopic approach; the zeroth law of thermodynamics; the concept of temperature, state of a system, state postulate for simple compressible substances, state diagrams, paths and processes on state diagrams; concepts of heat and work, different modes of work

Syllabus  for First Law of Thermodynamics:

The concept of energy and various forms of energy; specific heats; first law applied to elementary processes, closed systems and control volumes, steady and unsteady flow analysis, internal energy, enthalpy.

Section 3: Second Law of Thermodynamics:

Limitations of the first law of thermodynamics, second law analysis of control volume; availability and irreversibility; concepts of heat engines and heat pumps/refrigerators; the principle of increase of entropy, Carnot cycle and Carnot principles/theorems; thermodynamic temperature scale; Clausius inequality and concept of entropy; microscopic interpretation of entropy, T-s diagrams; third law of thermodynamics, Kelvin-Planck and Clausius statements and their equivalence; reversible and irreversible processes

Section 4: Properties of Pure Substances:

Thermodynamic properties of pure substances in solid, liquid and vapor phases; property tables and charts, ideal and real gases, P-vT behavior of simple compressible substances, phase rule, thermodynamic, compressibility factor and generalized compressibility chart, ideal gas equation of state and van der Waals equation of state; law of corresponding states.

Section 5: Thermodynamic Relations:

T-ds relations, Helmholtz and Gibbs functions, Maxwell relations, Gibbs relations, Joule-Thomson coefficient, adiabatic and isothermal compressibilities, Clapeyron and Clapeyron-Clausius equations, coefficient of volume expansion.

Section 6: Thermodynamic Cycles:

Air-standard Brayton cycle, Carnot vapor cycle, Rankine reheat cycle, ideal Rankine cycle, air-standard Otto cycle, air-standard Diesel cycle, vapor-compression refrigeration cycle.

GATE Syllabus Section 7: Ideal Gas Mixtures:

properTies of ideal gas mixtures, Dalton’s and Amagat’s laws, specific and relative humidities, adiabatic saturation temperature, air-water vapor mixtures and simple thermodynamic processes involving them; dew point and wet bulb temperature, psychrometric chart.