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Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings

Subjects: Engineering · Mechanical Engineering

Art: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Rovine di uno degli alloggiamenti de' Soldati presso aduna delle…, 1748 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Leon Glicksman
Term: Fall 2010
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 1 exam · 1 reading · 17 other files · 4 web pages
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Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings

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Lecture 1: Introduction, energy

Lecture 2: Energy, work

Lecture 3: Conservation of energy, heat

Lecture 4: Energy conservation

Lecture 5: Water: liquid and vapor

Lecture 6: Water, refrigerants, gases

Lecture 7: Steady state flow

Lecture 8: Heating and cooling systems

Lecture 9: Natural ventilation

Lecture 10: Transients, moist air mixtures

Lecture 11: Psychrometrics

Lecture 12: Quiz review

Lecture 13: Quiz 1

Lecture 14: Applications

Lecture 15: Heat transfer introduction

Lecture 16: Conductive heat transfer, moisture transfer in walls

Lecture 17: Composite walls

Lecture 18: Convection

Lecture 19: Introduction to design project 2: radiation

Lecture 20: Human comfort

Lecture 21: Quiz 2

Lecture 22: Solar radiation, windows

Lecture 23: Introduction to the second law

Lecture 24: Entropy, cogeneration systems

Lecture 25: Heat pumps, refrigeration cycles

Lecture 26: Tour: Building 68, Koch Biology Building ; and Building N51, MIT Museum and the Digital Design Fabrication Group

Lecture 27: Review