Web Based Interactive Thermodynamic Property Evaluation

With the tremendous growth of the Internet and the world wide web, many engineering courses now have some components that are web based. At its simplest, this may involve posting course materials, such as syllabus and homework assignments, on the web, while in its more complex form includes full-fledged web based courses. To fully accomplish a completely web based course in thermodynamics, some provisions must be made for interactive problem solving and, as the focus of this paper, interactive property evaluation. Two JAVA applets have been developed that provide an interactive, web based approach to the evaluation of thermodynamic properties for steam and ideal gases.