Thermodynamic Weirdness: From Fahrenheit to Clausius

by Don S. Lemons

Book Overview

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

Students of physics, chemistry, and engineering are taught classical thermodynamics through its methods--a "problems first" approach that neglects the subject's concepts and intellectual structure. In Thermodynamic Weirdness, Don Lemons fills this gap, offering a nonmathematical account of the ideas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262538946
• ISBN13: 9780262538947
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"