Interesting links for ThermodynamicsWhenever you find an interesting web site that is related to the course, please notify me, and I'll put a link here!
Be careful when examining the pages, not anything will be correct.
This is the Web, some links may expire - please notify me, when you hit an outdated link.
Dictionary of measures, units, and conversions
Online unit calculators
Periodic table at Los Alamos
Perpetual motion
Museum of unworkable devices
Animations (BBC)
Water
All about engineering and steam--including online steam tables (Spirax Sarco)
Thermophysical Properties of Fluid Systems (NIST)
everything you always wanted to know about water (Martin Chaplin)
mixing alcohol and water (movie)
the science of skating (no, it's not pressure)
more on skating
Steam and gas powerplants, as well as combined cycles:
Watt's steam engine
Old Toy steam engines
Some modern toy steam engines (don't forget to watch the movie...)
Water injector to feed boilers of steam engines
A 1911 lecture on steam turbines with many pictures
Gas turbines, air engines
Take a journey through a jet engine (Rolls-Royce)
All about aircraft engines, including of ramjet/scramjet, radial engine etc.
Turbine bike
Build a Gas-turbine from an old turbocharger
Westport Diesel engines burn natural gas (and a bit of Diesel fuel)
Fuel Cells - clean and efficient?!
Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation (NRC)
Angstrom Power
Ballard Power
MTI micro fuel cells
Nuvera
Neah
Quantum Technologies
Stirling engines
Stirlingenergy
American Stirling Company
Animation of Stirling cycle (Uni Leipzig)
Dirtsimple
HVAC etc
Capstone Microturbines
Hydropower
Grand Coulee Dam
Solar Chimney - The tallest structure (to be) build by men?
Will they build it in Australia?
more on the Solar Chimney Power Plant
watch their video!
Geothermal etc.
Geothermal energy for power plants (Slide show)
Geothermal energy live: Old Faithful
Ocean energy
Solar Ponds
in Bhuj
and more
Entropy in the World Wide Web
How stuff works
Environment Canada
Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures