Schaum's Outline of Thermodynamics with Chemical Applications

by Hendrick C. Van Ness and Michael M. Abbott

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Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070000425
• ISBN13: 9780070000421
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

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The Schaum Outline Series has stood the test of time and Thermodynamics by Abbott and Van Ness is no exception. If you want to learn thermo beyond the typical undergraduate level, progressively working through the problems chapter-by-chapter in this book will do the trick. Although this book does follow the old sign convention for work (positive when the system does work on the environment), it properly follows the specific energy convention of "energy/mass". Thus, the ideal gas equation is PV = RT, where V has units of "volume/mass". Once this simple terminology is understood, steam tables can be readily used without confusion.