Learning Objectives

After completing today's reading, exercises, and the associated homework you should be able to:

• Define the terms:
  • specific heat at constant pressure (c_p) and
  • specific heat at constant volume (c_v).
• Find changes in specific internal energy (Δu) for ideal gases with constant heats and incompressible substances with constant heats.
• Find changes in specific internal enthalpy (Δh) for ideal gases with constant heats and incompressible substances with constant specific heats.
• Incorporate relations for changes in specific internal energy (Δu) and changes in specific internal enthalpy (Δh) for ideal gases with constant heats and/or incompressible substances with constant specific heats in the application of conservation of energy equation to both open and closed systems.