After completing the reading, exercises, and the associated homework you should be able to:
Identify the components the comprise an ideal vapor-compression refrigeration cycle
Use conservation of energy and appropriate property relations to find the rate of heat transfer and/or the power in or out of each component of the cycle
Calculate the coefficient of performance (COP or β) of an ideal vapor-compression refrigeration cycle
Incorporate isentropic efficiencies (AKA adiabatic efficiencies) for appropriate cycle components
Identity trends in cycle COP based on T and P for the heat addition and heat rejection steps
Note: Any term in bold is a key vocabulary term that you should be able to define, regardless of whether or not that is the specific learning objective.