Mechanical engineering : (including experiments) / D.S. Kumar.

Includes index.

Part-I: Thermodynamics -- Basic concepts and definitions -- Temperature and zeroth law of thermodynamics -- Transient energies: work and heat -- Ideal gases and their basic laws -- First law of thermodynamics -- Steady flow energy equation (flow processes and 1st law) -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Entropy -- Availability and irreversibility -- Part-II: Properties of steam and thermodynamics -- Steam and its properties -- Gas power cycle -- Internal combustion engines -- Thermodynamic vapour cycles -- Part-III: Mechanics -- Basic concepts -- Co-planar forces -- Moment of force and parallel forces -- Friction -- Shear force and bending moment -- Plane trusses and frames -- Dynamics: kinematics and kinetics -- Part-IV: Strength of materials -- Simple stresses and strains -- Compound stresses and strains -- Bending stresses in beams -- Torsion of circular shafts -- Experiments -- Previous years question papers.