Disusun Ulang Oleh:
Arip Nurahman
Pendidikan Fisika, FPMIPA. Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
&
Follower Open Course Ware at MIT-Harvard University. Cambridge. USA.
Materi kuliah termodinamika ini disusun dari hasil perkuliahan di departemen fisika FPMIPA Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia dengan Dosen:
1. Bpk. Drs. Saeful Karim, M.Si.
2. Bpk. Insan Arif Hidayat, S.Pd., M.Si.
Dan dengan sumber bahan bacaan lebih lanjut dari :
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Thermodynamics
Professor Z. S. Spakovszk, Ph.D.
Office: 31-265
Phone: 617-253-2196
Email: zolti@mit.edu
Aero-Astro Web: http://mit.edu/aeroastro/people/spakovszky
Gas Turbine Laboratory: home
2.4 Specific Heats: the relation between temperature change and heat
How much does a given amount of heat transfer change the temperature of a substance? It depends on the substance. In general
where


Two useful processes are constant pressure and constant volume, so we will consider these each in turn. We will call the specific heat at constant pressure , and that at constant volume
, or
and
per unit mass.
- The Specific Heat at Constant Volume
Remember that if we specify any two properties of the system, then the state of the system is fully specified. In other words we can write
,
or
. [VW, S & B: 5.7]
Consider the form
, and use the chain rule to write how
changes with respect to
and
:
For a constant volume process, the second term is zero since there is no change in volume,. Now if we write the First Law for a quasi-static process, with
,
we see that again the second term is zero if the process is also constant volume. Equating (2.5) and (2.6) withcanceled in each,
and rearranging
In this case, any energy increase is due only to energy transfer as heat. We can therefore use our definition of specific heat from Equation (2.4) to define the specific heat for a constant volume process, - The Specific Heat at Constant Pressure
If we write
, and consider a constant pressure process, we can perform a similar derivation to the one above and show that
In the derivation of , we considered only a constant volume process, hence the name, ``specific heat at constant volume.'' It is more useful, however, to think of
in terms of its definition as a certain partial derivative, which is a thermodynamic property, rather than as a quantity related to heat transfer in a special process. In fact, the derivatives above are defined at any point in any quasi-static process whether that process is constant volume, constant pressure, or neither. The names ``specific heat at constant volume'' and ``specific heat at constant pressure'' are therefore unfortunate misnomers;
and
are thermodynamic properties of a substance, and by definition depend only the state. They are extremely important values, and have been experimentally determined as a function of the thermodynamic state for an enormous number of simple compressible substances2.1.
To recap:


Practice Questions Throw an object from the top tier of the lecture hall to the front of the room. Estimate how much the temperature of the room has changed as a result. Start by listing what information you need to solve this problem.
2.4.1 Specific Heats of an Ideal Gas
The equation of state for an ideal gas is



One of the other important features of an ideal gas is that its internal energy depends only upon its temperature. (For now, this can be regarded as another aspect of the model of actual systems that the ideal gas represents, but it can be shown that this is a consequence of the form of the equation of state.) Since depends only on
,
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In the above equation we have indicated that






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If we are interested in finite changes of internal energy or enthalpy, we integrate,
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and
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Over small temperature changes (



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These equations are useful in calculating internal energy or enthalpy differences, but it should be remembered that they hold only if the specific heats are constant.
We can relate the specific heats of an ideal gas to its gas constant as follows. We write the first law in terms of internal energy,
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and assume a quasi-static process so that we can also write it in terms of enthalpy, as in Section 2.3.4,
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Equating the two first law expressions above, and assuming an ideal gas, we obtain
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Combining terms,
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Since

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An expression that will appear often is the ratio of specific heats, which we will define as
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Below we summarize the important results for all ideal gases, and give some values for specific types of ideal gases.
- All ideal gases:
- The specific heat at constant volume (
for a unit mass or
for one kmol) is a function of
only.
- The specific heat at constant pressure (
for a unit mass or
for one kmol) is a function of
only.
- A relation that connects the specific heats
,
, and the gas constant is
and
would be the specific heats for one kilogram of gas and
is as defined above. For one kmol of gas, the expression takes the form
and
have been used to denote the specific heats for one kmol of gas and
is the universal gas constant.
- The specific heat ratio,
(or
), is a function of
only and is greater than unity.
- The specific heat at constant volume (
- An ideal gas with specific heats independent of temperature,
and
, is referred to as a perfect gas. For example, monatomic gases and diatomic gases at ordinary temperatures are considered perfect gases. To make this distinction the terminology "a perfect gas with constant specific heats" is used throughout the notes. In some textbooks perfect gases are sometimes also referred to as ideal gases, and to avoid confusion we use the stated terminology2.2.
- Monatomic gases, such as He, Ne, Ar, and most metallic vapors:
(or
) is constant over a wide temperature range and is very nearly equal to
[or
, for one kmol].
(or
) is constant over a wide temperature range and is very nearly equal to
[or
, for one kmol].
is constant over a wide temperature range and is very nearly equal to
[
].
- So-called permanent diatomic gases, namely H
, O
, N
, Air, NO, and CO:
(or
) is nearly constant at ordinary temperatures, being approximately
[
, for one kmol], and increases slowly at higher temperatures.
(or
) is nearly constant at ordinary temperatures, being approximately
[
, for one kmol], and increases slowly at higher temperatures.
is constant over a temperature range of roughly
to
and is very nearly equal to
[
]. It decreases with temperature above this.
- Polyatomic gases and gases that are chemically active, such as CO
, NH
, CH
, and Freons:
The specific heats,
and
, and
vary with the temperature, the variation being different for each gas. The general trend is that heavy molecular weight gases (i.e., more complex gas molecules than those listed in 2 or 3), have values of
closer to unity than diatomic gases, which, as can be seen above, are closer to unity than monatomic gases. For example, values of
below 1.2 are typical of Freons which have molecular weights of over one hundred.2.3
In general, for substances other than ideal gases, and
depend on pressure as well as on temperature, and the above relations will not all apply. In this respect, the ideal gas is a very special model.
In summary, the specific heats are thermodynamic properties and can be used even if the processes are not constant pressure or constant volume. The simple relations between changes in energy (or enthalpy) and temperature are a consequence of the behavior of an ideal gas, specifically the dependence of the energy and enthalpy on temperature only, and are not true for more complex substances.2.4
2.4.2 Reversible adiabatic processes for an ideal gas
From the first law, with ,
, and
,
Also, using the definition of enthalpy,


Equation (2.9) can be integrated between states 1 and 2 to give




We can substitute for or
in the above result using the ideal gas law, or carry out the derivation slightly differently, to also show that
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We will use the above equations to relate pressure and temperature to one another for quasi-static adiabatic processes (for instance, this type of process is our idealization of what happens in compressors and turbines).
Practice Questions
- On a
-
diagram for a closed-system sketch the thermodynamic paths that the system would follow if expanding from
to
by isothermal and quasi-static, adiabatic processes.
- For which process is the most work done by the system?
- For which process is there heat exchange? Is it added or removed?
- Is the final state of the system the same after each process?
- Derive expressions for the work done by the system for each process.
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