Publisher's Synopsis
This introduction to classical thermodynamics makes use of examples to clarify complex concepts for students. It incorporates explanations of fundamental thermodynamic principles and processes and offers an organized approach to the analysis and solution of thermodynamic problems.;Some features of the book are that it stresses physical systems; employs only SI units; offers applications of up-to-date computer techniques; includes parallel treatment of conservation of mass and energy principles; improves the presentations for the development of Clausius inequality and the definition of entropy; includes a revised presentation for the rate of change of total entropy; and incorporates photographs of actual mechanical components and systems. The book is laid out in colour, incorporates new end-of-chapter problems and summaries and offers boxed equations and answers to the problems.
