Thermodynamics

This is the first paperback edition of a classic and popular text that has gone through some 14 printings since its first hardcover issue in 1941. The author illustrates his material with applications that will especially appeal to the chemical and mechanical engineering student, but the emphasis throughout is on basic principles. For this reason, the book remains essentially up-to-date: although some teachers may wish to supplement its use with more recent illustrative applications, its solid presentation of long-established thermodynamic applications is of course invariant over time. The ordering of the material into chapters and the "rate of flow" of its development from one chapter to the next are carefully controlled in the interests of continuity and of the student new to the subject. But for review or study by more advanced students, the mechanics of the chapters have been made as independent as possible—each has its own bibliography and list of symbols used. There are also problems after each chapter, and this paperback edition inclues, for the first time, a section containing the answers.