I prefer studying in Textbook so I read along the textbook named: "Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach by Cengel" and there are chapters about Exergy and Gibbs energy. But the problem is my professor didn't teach or even mention it in the class. The book then utilizes tons of Exergy analysis in the succeeding chapter while I was taught only simple entropy analysis. Now the course is coming to an end and I will have a month break before the next semester starts. Should I study the chapters by myself or should I just skip them and pay attention to the subjects of the next semester?
If you are going to do graduate level work in an area related to thermodynamics then it would be worth catching up on topics your professor missed. Otherwise don't worry about it and prepare yourself for courses in the next semesters.
Depend on your background in Thermodynamics. Exergy analysis is now the most approach to a good mass and energy balance analysis. Is neccesary to use the exergy analysis now. Cengel is not a good book in my opinion. Proffesor Cengel dont use, just a little, the non-equilibrium analysys, that is, the thermodynamics on irreversible systems. He only deal with equilibrium systems. I recomend you the books of Prigogine-Kondepudi. Is a time lost the almost 1000 probems in Cengel book. Thermodynamics is not that, is cuestion of concepts and a good undenrstanding of the phenomenon.
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Eduardo
These are important topics. I took every single course offered in the College of Engineering at the master's level (not just the required ones and not just the ones in my discipline) and never regretted it. I took more math classes during my doctoral studies in engineering than the math majors. Understanding Gibbs Free Energy is essential in several fields, including chemical reactions. I have lots of free material for you. This book is free tomorrow (11/29) https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07SW9LWTS&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_B8KR3PGH3G59Q37E8G90
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