Simulate heat engines, trace PV diagrams, calculate entropy changes, and explore the fundamental laws governing energy transformations.
Start ExploringStudy thermal equilibrium, specific heat capacity, calorimetry, phase changes, and heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation.
Explore the zeroth through third laws, internal energy, enthalpy, free energy, and the relationship between heat, work, and efficiency.
Simulate Carnot, Otto, Diesel, and Rankine cycles. Analyze heat pumps, refrigerators, and real-world energy systems.
Build and run thermodynamic cycles, measure efficiency, and compare ideal vs. real engine performance.
Trace pressure-volume diagrams for isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, and isochoric processes.
Measure specific heat capacities, latent heats, and energy transfers in virtual calorimeter experiments.
Calculate entropy changes for reversible and irreversible processes with visual state diagrams.
Running the Carnot cycle simulation while reading off efficiency from the PV diagram made theory real.Prof. Kumar, Thermodynamics
I finally understand why perpetual motion machines are impossible after the entropy exercises.Nathan R., Grade 12