
Concise yet thorough, accessible, authoritative, and affordable. These are the hallmarks of books in the remarkable Physics and its Applications series. Thermodynamics is an essential part of any physical sciences education, but it is so full of pitfalls and subtleties, that...

In this second edition there are new sections on scales of temperature, availability, the degradation of energy and lattice defects.

New sections on scales of temperature, availability, the degredation of energy and lattice defects accompany this volume which emphasizes understanding the basic ideas of thermodynamics. The text includes examples of the application of thermodynamics to chemistry, physics and...




Concise yet thorough, accessible, authoritative, and affordable. These are the hallmarks of books in the remarkable Physics and its Applications series. Thermodynamics is an essential part of any physical sciences education, but it is so full of pitfalls and subtleties, that...