- Greek root – “Therme” – Heat, “Dynamis” – Power (or work)
- Energy transformations of work, heat, KE, PE, internal energy, electrical energy
Resources
- MTE 309 - Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
- Lecture Notes on Thermodynamics (Joseph Powers, University of Notre Dame)
- Thermodynamics, An Engineering Approach (9th ed.)
- Feynman Lectures on Physics