| January 6, 1997 CH E 243: ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION (Second Term 1996-97) LECTURE SECTIONS
SEMINAR SECTIONS
Questions regarding assignments (grading and other problems) should be directed to Mr. Kurt Schmidt on Tuesdays from 1400 to 1500 or Wednesday from 1100 to 1200 in room CME 564. HOMEPAGE The homepage for this course contains the handouts, assignments, assignment solutions, as well as assignments and exams from previous terms. You can find the homepage at www.ualberta.ca/~che243 MARK DISTRIBUTION AND EXAMINATIONS The final mark in CH E 243 will be based on the
following items and weight distribution:
The final mark on the 9-point system will be arrived at by a combination of absolute measures and distributions of grades based on experience during previous years. The term examination is one and a half hour long, and
the final examination is three hours long. All
examinations are closed book and closed notes;
calculators are required. Data and formulae sheets, like
the ones attached to this handout, will be provided with
each examination. The examinations will be held on the dates shown below.
The location of the examinations will be announced in class. Policies regarding re-examinations are stated in Section 23.5.5, p. 75 of the 1996/97 Calendar; additional information can be obtained from the Faculty of Engineering Office (Room MEC E 5-1, Mechanical Engineering Building). SEMINARS Six seminar periods have been scheduled; seminars will start in the week of January 13, 1997. Students should report to the seminar section in which they have registered. Report any conflicts regarding seminars to the instructor. During the seminar periods, graded homework assignments will be returned and problems will be discussed. HOMEWORK Eleven homework sets will be assigned during the term. The assignments are due at 1500 (3:00 p.m.) sharp on Wednesdays. Assignments must be placed in the correct slot of the wooden box located in the hall outside Room CME 564. Place your homework into the slot according to your assigned seminar section. Graded assignments not picked up during the seminar period will be left under the wooden box. Solutions will be posted in the glass case opposite Room CME 572 and on the homepage; solutions are also located in the Cameron Library Reserve Reading Room under Call Number F243 Engineering paper is to be used for the homework assignments. The first page of each assignment must indicate the due date of the assignment, the assignment number, student's name, seminar section and the total number of pages handed in, N. This information must appear on the first page in the following format (marks will be deducted if this format is not used):
LATE, SLOPPY OR UNINTELLIGIBLE ASSIGNMENTS WILL NOT BE MARKED! TEXTBOOK Y.A. Cengel and M.A. Boles, "Thermodynamics: An
Engineering Approach", 2nd Ed., McGraw Hill, 1994 REFERENCE BOOKS The books listed below may be useful for individual study. 1. G.J. Van Wylen, R.E. Sonntag and C. Borgnakke, "Fundamentals of Classical Thermodynamics", 4th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1994. . 2. J.P Holman, "Thermodynamics", 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1988. 3. W.Z. Black and J.G. Hartley, "Thermodynamics", 2nd Ed., Harper & Row, 1991. 4. J.R. Howell and R.O. Buckius, "Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics", SI Version, McGraw-Hill, 1987. |