Thermo, as every one of us called it, was the most abstract class that I have ever had the satisfaction of taking while I was in engineering school.
The class made no sense to myself and others at all in it’s practicality of normal annually USge or necessity.
When on earth do I ever need to think the hour law of thermodynamics? It hasn’t come up yet so far in the 30 years since I have taken the class, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I certainly won’t need it for the next 30 years either. It’s right there with Differential Equations. How much do every one of us genuinely need to think about heating and cooling of closed loop systems, along with entropy and extropy? I would have much better spent my time getting an Heating & Air Conditioning license or even starting my own commercial Heating & Air Conditioning supplier with all of the time I spent learning Thermo. I recognize every one of us don’t think when every one of us are that age, and need the course to get our degree anyways, that every one of us genuinely won’t use the course again after every one of us get our grades. I wish I did get my Heating & Air Conditioning certification now because I recognize my a/c condenser is awful and needs to be updated. I don’t recognize it is a genuinely cheap task either so I may be spending a lot of money on getting it updated. Maybe I should get my Heating & Air Conditioning licence and do it myself. I’m just thinking out loud here and trying to come up with a solution. Besides, how much does a new heating and cooling system cost?