| Details | | Publication Date: | 1991-01-18 | | Edition Description: | Subsequent |
| Size | | Height: | 10.5 in | | Width: | 7.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 52.8 oz |
Publisher's Note Presents a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of thermodynamics while retaining an engineering perspective and, in so doing, provides a resource with considerable flexibility for the inclusion of material on thermodynamics. Updated for this Third Edition, it reflects an increased emphasis on environmental issues and a recognition of the steadily growing use of computers in the study of thermodynamics and solution of thermodynamic problems. Contains numerous examples, as well as problems at the end of each chapter that are carefully sequenced to reflect the subject matter.
Industry Reviews st: Cited in BCL3 a first course in thermodynamics for undergraduate students of engineering, distinguished from some roughly similar texts by final chapters devoted to brief surveys of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, and from previous editions (1971, 1982) by the inclusions of some "environmentally sensitive" paragraphs and of exercises which require computer-based solution. "Elegance" has not been a goal of the authors, whose major effort has been simply "to get the job done"; taking into account the realities of student psychology, they do not hesitate to be (for the moment) a little vague when greater precision would serve only to distract. (NW) Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Hughes
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