<p>hello guys,i will be taking chemical engineering thermodynamics next sem,and i was told its like the greatest hell on this earth.how should i study for it?</p>
<p>Probably a great exaggeration. There are classes comparable in virtually all engineering majors. Just stay on top of the homework and do the reading after each lecture and make sure you understand the material the day it's taught. If you do that it takes a large load of your shoulders the week of the test. You can concentrate on doing example problems while everyone else is relearning the material again.</p>
<p>is it like the thermo i do in physics or chemistry? or is it a different thign?</p>
<p>I took thermo as a mechanical engineering student. Thermo is the study of energy transfer. Remember the laws of thermodynamics? You may have studied them in physics. In thermo you basically learn the theory behind energy transfer and the various systems that use thermodynamic principles. And you learn all of the math that is used to analyze the systems and cycles. A good example is the rankine cycle with regeneration, the same process used by many electric power plants.</p>
<p>I think ChemE thermo is sufficiently different from ME thermo to make them not comparable, simply because ChemE thermo concentrates a lot of the thermodynamics of chemical mixtures, in addition to all of that energy cycle stuff. </p>
<p>To give you one example - take fugacity. Frankly, I STILL don't truly completely understand the concept of fugacity. Nor am I the only one. I remember one girl who graduated with high honors and was admitted into the PhD program of the school and was offered a TA position for ChemE thermodynamics, and hesitated taking it because if she did, she would actually have to figure out what all that stuff actually meant, which she was evidently unable to do the first time around when she was an undergrad student. When even some of the PhD students don't feel confident that they understand the material of a particular undergrad class, you know that class must be pretty tough.</p>
<p>how many hours then should i put into doing thermo assignments and studying?currently,i put anywhere from 20-36hrs per week,is that sufficient?</p>
<p>That seems more than enough.</p>
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You put 20-36 hrs/wk just on ONE class?!?!?!</p>
<p>i just put in a guess figure.....but i know it would be at least 20hrs...plus another 20 in organic chem and another 20 in differential equations.</p>
<p>at least 10 hrs on hw and another 15 hrs each on studying and doing practice problems....hopefully t will pay off with an A</p>
<p>That seems kinda excessive, but whatever it takes to understand the material. Keep up the good work!</p>