Thermodynamics & Heat

This gem of a book provides the student with a clear, concise, and compelling introduction to the deceptively simple but vitally important topic of...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

At the heart of many fields - physics, chemistry, engineering - lies thermodynamics. While this science plays a critical role in determining the bo...

How do magnets work? What is the theory of relativity all about? Is light made of waves or particles? And how on earth can a levitating goat teach ...

For the thermodynamics course in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering department Thermodynamics: An Interactive Approach employs a layered ap...

About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical demon as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of therm...

'The four laws that do not drive the universe: elements of thermodynamics for the curious and intelligent. The second purpose of Ben-Naimâs book is...

A man and his equation: the anxiety-plagued nineteenth-century physicist who contributed significantly to our understanding of the second law of th...

An account of the concepts and intellectual structure of classical thermodynamics that reveals the subject''s simplicity and coherence. Students...