I used this book in my undergraduate thermodynamics/statistical mechanics course. I found it to be quite good. It's fairly easy to read and provides enough detail to give the reader a good understanding of the material. The exercises are challenging enough to be useful, but not so difficult as to
Heat and Thermodynamics
โ Scribed by mark waldo zemansky
- Year
- 1968
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 696
- Edition
- 5
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
HEAT AND THERMODYNAMICS - ZEMANSKY (5th ed.)
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notation
1. Temperature
2. Simple Thermodynamic Systems
3. Work
4. Heat and the First Law
5. Ideal Gases
6. Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas
7. Engines, Refrigerators, and the Second Law
8. Reversibility and the Kelvin Temperature Scale
9. Entropy
10. Statistical Mechanics
11. Pure Substances
12. Phase Transitions; Liquid and Solid Helium
13. Special Topics
14. Paramagnetism, Cryogenics, Negative Temperatures, and the Third Law
15. Superfluidity and Superconductivity
16. Chemical Equilibrium
17. Ideal-gas Reactions
18. Heterogeneous Systems
Appendix A: Physical Constans
Appendix B: Riemann Zeta Functions
Bibliography
Answers to Selected Problems
Index
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This respected text deals with large-scale, easily known thermal phenomena and then proceeds to small-scale, less accessible phenomena. The wide range of mathematics used in Dittman and Zemansky's text simultaneously challenges students who have completed a course in impartial differential calculus
<span>This respected text deals with large-scale, easily known thermal phenomena and then proceeds to small-scale, less accessible phenomena. The wide range of mathematics used in Dittman and Zemansky's text simultaneously challenges students who have completed a course in impartial differential cal
HEAT AND THERMODYNAMICS covers basic ideas of Heat and Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory and Transport Phenomena, Real Gases, Liquefaction and Production and Measurement of very Low Temperatures, The First Law of Thermodynamics, The Second and Third Laws of Thermodynamics and Heat Engines and Black Bod