ME321 - Fall 2007 Calendar (updated 11/2/07 *)

Blackboard 6

 Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

   Sept
 3
Labor Day
 4
Chapter 1
Concepts, Definitions, Basic Principles
 5  6  7
 10
Chapter 2
Properties of Pure Substances
 11  12  13  14
 17
Chapter 3
Work and Heat
 18  19  20  21
quiz 1

 Oct

 24
Chapter 4 - The First Law of Thermodynamics
a) Closed Systems
 25  26  27

28
Water Rocket Thrust Adiabatic Analysis

quiz 2

 1
Chapter 4 - The First Law of Thermo
b) Flow Systems
 2  3
Visit to Global Cooling 10:00am
 4

 5
makeup quiz

take-home quiz 1

 8 - last drop

take-home-quiz 1 due in class

 9  10
Visit to Sunpower, Inc. 10:00am.
 11  12
quiz 3
 15
Chapter 5 - The Second Law of Thermodynamics
 16  17  18  19
quiz 4

 22
Chapter 6 - Entropy

Clausius Inequality

 23
Evaluating Entropy (Tds)

Increase in Entropy Principle

 24  25
Entropy Summary Sheet
 26
quiz 5

 Nov

 29
Isentropic Processes Summary Sheet

Adiabatic Efficiency Summary Sheet

 30  31
Tour of Gavin Power Plant 8:00am - noon
(Meet in the Stocker Parking Lot)
 1 2
take-home quiz 2

 5
take-home-quiz 2 due in class

Begin review

 6  7  8
Guest lecture Dr. Tom Scott on the T700 Gas Turbine engine
 9
quiz 6
 12
Veterans Day
(no classes)
 13
Last class
 14
Reading Day
 15
Exams begin
 16

Final Exam - Tuesday Nov 20 (2:30 p.m.)

* Note: this Calendar (by: izzi) is updated periodically

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