Thermodynamics Tuition Online for Engineering Students
Engineering Thermodynamics: properties and steam tables, the first and second laws, entropy, and the power and refrigeration cycles, taught from your course outline.
Founder & Head of School, Afterkelas
Afterkelas tutors Thermodynamics online for university and diploma engineering students. Tutors run live classes, 1-to-1 or in small groups, on property tables, energy balances, entropy and cycle analysis, following the student's own course.
What a first Thermodynamics course covers
The core topics of a first university course in engineering thermodynamics. Each university sets its own order and depth, so the tutor works from your course outline.
Core topics
12 topics- Basic concepts, systems and properties
- Energy, heat and work
- Properties of pure substances and property tables
- The ideal gas equation
- First law for closed systems
- First law for steady-flow devices
- Second law, heat engines and refrigerators
- The Carnot cycle
- Entropy and isentropic efficiency
- Gas power cycles: Otto, Diesel and Brayton
- Vapour power cycles: Rankine
- Refrigeration and heat pump cycles
Careful accounting for energy
Every thermodynamics problem starts the same way: define the system, closed or open, write the energy balance, and find the properties, often from steam or refrigerant tables. The second law then sets the limits. No engine can beat the Carnot efficiency between the same two temperatures, and entropy measures how far a real process falls short of the ideal.
Once that routine is fixed, the devices and cycles of the later chapters, turbines, compressors, the Rankine and Brayton cycles, become variations on one method.
Where marks are lost
Most lost marks come from three places: the wrong system boundary, a sign convention for heat and work applied inconsistently, and properties read from the wrong table or temperatures left in Celsius where kelvin is needed. Tutors drill a fixed routine: sketch, define the system, list what is known, write the balance, then look up properties.
Working from your course outline
Each university sets its own order, tables and depth, so the tutor starts from your course outline, tutorial sheets and past papers. Assessed work is your own; the tutor explains the methods behind it with similar problems.
A question, worked through
A second-law problem on the Carnot limit. Temperatures must be in kelvin.
Question
A heat engine receives 100 kW of heat from a source at 527 °C and rejects heat to surroundings at 27 °C. (a) Find the maximum possible thermal efficiency. (b) The engine actually produces 40 kW of work. Is that possible, and what is its efficiency?
- Convert to kelvin: T_H = 527 + 273 = 800 K and T_L = 27 + 273 = 300 K.
- (a) Carnot efficiency = 1 − T_L ÷ T_H = 1 − 300 ÷ 800 = 0.625, or 62.5%.
- (b) Actual efficiency = work ÷ heat in = 40 ÷ 100 = 0.40, or 40%.
- 40% is below the 62.5% limit, so the engine is possible. Any claim above 62.5% would break the second law.
Answer (a) 62.5%. (b) Possible, with an efficiency of 40%.
Frequently asked questions
Why do students find Thermodynamics hard?
It mixes new concepts, entropy above all, with careful bookkeeping and table work, and small slips in units or signs spoil whole answers. A fixed problem routine and plenty of worked problems fix most of it.
Do you teach later thermodynamics courses too?
Yes. The tutor follows your course outline, whether it is a first course or a later one on cycles and applications.
When should Thermodynamics tuition start?
In the first weeks, while properties and the first law are taught, since most later topics reuse them.
How much does Thermodynamics tuition cost?
The fee depends on the format (1-to-1 or a small group), how many classes a week and the tutor, so there is no single figure. Send an academic advisor the university, the course code and the course outline on WhatsApp, and you will get the current packages and a quote, usually within one working day.