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Heat and Thermodynamics: An Intermediate Textbook |
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Heat and Thermodynamics: An Intermediate Textbook
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
Author: M. W. Zemansky
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 1981-03-01
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Label: McGraw-Hill Companies
Number Of Pages: 543
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Editorial Review:
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 without alienating those students who have only taken a calculus-based general physics course. Examples of calculations are presented shortly after important formulas are derived. Students see the solutions of problems related to the formulas. Actual thermodynamic experiments are explained in detail. The student sees the applicability of abstract thermodynamic concepts and formulas to real situations.
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating: 
A Quality Book on Thermodynamics  2007-10-21
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 leave the reader feeling hopeless. I don't recall coming across many (if any) errors in the text or in the solutions. Perhaps the other reviewers who found lots of problems simply didn't understand how to arrive at the correct answer.
You'd never guess it was the seventh edition  2003-01-17
The book was full of typos, just do a few problems and check the answers in the back if you don't believe me. I have never seen a seventh edition with so many mistakes. At times it was readable but more often it was not. I thought the last few chapters were very good, however. The flow of material seemed quite logical, but I thought some important things were not stressed enough. I just cannot justify giving this book less than two stars, or more than three.
Decent With a Few Flaws  2002-01-06
The book is a decent first course on thermodynamics. My main issue with it was that most of the 'problems' were trivial exercises in algebra, although a few were worthwhile. Parts of the book were dull, but some sections were quite interesting. I found there to be fewer errors than some of the other reviews might lead you to believe.
Don't waste your time with this book  2000-07-06
First of all, there are so many mistakes and typos in this book that you will be quite confused reading it. Also, there are very few examples, and many of the numerical answers to the homework are just wrong - sometimes by orders of magnitude! The book may seem deceptively good, but try reading it. I gaurantee you that you will be confused. Some things just do not make sense, not because they are intrinsically hard to understand, but the text was poorly written. He does a poor job with being consistent, which further adds to the confusion. Furthermore, the book is quite dull. If you want to beleive the other reviewer, go ahead and waste your money. There are many other great textbooks out there. I actually rate this book 0 stars. Nobody should have to waste their money buying it and end up suffering as I did.
This book stinks 1999-12-02
This book is lousy. It reads like stereo instructions. There are virtually no useful example problems presented. Answers are provided only for some problems which require numerical solutions, and as far as we can tell, many of the numerical solutions are just plain wrong, while others are off by orders of magnitude.
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