Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach with Student Resources DVD Author: Amazon Prime Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering | Language: English | ISBN:
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Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach with Student Resources DVD Description
Thermodynamics Seventh Edition covers the basic principles of thermodynamics while presenting a wealth of real-world engineering examples so students get a feel for how thermodynamics is applied in engineering practice. This text helps students develop an intuitive understanding of thermodynamics by emphasizing the physics and physical arguments. Cengel/Boles explore the various facets of thermodynamics through careful explanations of concepts and its use of numerous practical examples and figures, having students develop necessary skills to bridge the gap between knowledge and the confidence to properly apply knowledge.
The media package for this text is extensive, giving users a large variety of supplemental resources to choose from. A Student Resources DVD is packaged with each new copy of the text and contains the popular Engineering Equation Solver (EES) software. McGraw-Hill's new Connect is available to students and instructors. Connect is a powerful, web-based assignment management system that makes creating and grading assignments easy for instructors and learning convenient for students. It saves time and makes learning for students accessible anytime, anywhere. With Connect, instructors can easily manage assignments, grading, progress, and students receive instant feedback from assignments and practice problems.
- Hardcover: 1056 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 7 edition (January 25, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780077366742
- ISBN-13: 978-0077366742
- ASIN: 0077366743
- Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8 x 1.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
If you read only one book on Thermodynamics, make it this one.
I would strongly encourage students of science - whether physics, chemistry, or even biology and geology - to study this book before moving on to more specialized texts. This book is the best "big picture" book for Thermodynamics I have seen, and it manages to cover a wide variety of the different aspects of the subject, at times in surprising depth. Plus it does so in the most natural context for this subject: engineering, where it was born.
I have read quite a few books on Thermodynamics before this one, and I was really surprised and delighted by how much I got out of it. I'd give it six stars if I could.
The prerequisites are basic multivariable calculus and elementary ordinary differential equations as well as elementary classical mechanics. Some elementary fluid mechanics would be helpful too, but is by no means essential.
The book includes more than enough problems for even the most avid student, and the problems cover the gamut from simple plug-and-chug, to computational problems that can be solved using the software included on the DVD, to conceptual questions, to open ended design and investigation problems.
The book also includes copious tables of thermodynamical property data that can - and sometimes must - be consulted to solve the problems.
The only substantial criticism I have concerns some of the optional sections that typically end the chapters. In particular the one on entropy rubbed me the wrong way by trying to explain entropy as disorganization. The example of the messy library having more entropy than the one where the books are organized appropriately on the shelves really bothered me.
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