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This is a comprehensive guide to the often confusing subject of thermodynamics, for engineers, physicists, and chemists. The succinct entries are arranged alphabetically, allowing the reader to browse through the subject and to pursue a particular point, skipping or ignoring extraneous points. After twenty years of teaching thermodynamics, Professor Perrot knows exactly which areas students find difficult and has taken particular trouble with these points. The entries explain the words and phrases that crop up in thermodynamics without recourse to pages of mathematics and algebra: the main aim being to explain and clarify the jargon and concepts. Professor Perrot achieves this aim while maintaining a refreshing lightness of prose style, in which spirit he also includes some asides on interesting people and events in the history of thermodynamics.
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- Title A to Z of Thermodynamics
- Author Pierre Perrot
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher OUP Oxford, Oxford, England
- Date 1998-08-27
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780198565529 / 0198565526
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.51 x 5.45 x 0.71 in (21.62 x 13.84 x 1.80 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Thermodynamics - Dictionaries
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-51538
- Dewey Decimal Code 621.402
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Oxford University Press, 27 August 1998
Paperback, 336 pages
The title is a perfect description. Arranged alphabetically this book explains the words and phrases that crop up in thermodynamics. The author does this without resorting to pages of mathematics and algebra: the author's main aim is to explain and clarify the jargon and concepts. Thermodynamics is often difficult and confusing for students. The author knows this after 20 years of teaching and does something about it with this dictionary.