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Thermodynamics for mechanics
I work on solid and fluid mechanics. Some times I come across thermodynamical arguments (like second law, free energy etc) and I don't understand them well. I wanted to read thermodynamics books but got confused in the so many different approaches used. My frequent encounter with thermodynamics is in constitutive equations for solids where they use the second law to verify whether the constititive relation is acceptable or not. Seldom I find it in surface tension and related phenomena in fluids.
Do you recommend any good classical thermodynamics book (or better ebook) for my purpose? I don't think I need to know so much, but may be I don't know what exactly I need to know.
Regards,
Temesgen
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re: thermodynamics for mechanics students
I prepared a set of notes on statistical mechanics for my students. A number of people have suggested other sources in the follow up discussions.
thermodynamics
Last few years, I conducted short course of “thermodynamics”. I find Holman’s book is quite useful for basically understanding the thermodynamics laws. You may refer to the book.
Thermodynamics
J. P. Holman
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The first law of thermodynamics
Chapter 5: The second law of thermodynamics
Thanks Profs. Liu and
Thanks Profs. Liu and suo.
I will take a look at them and recommend it to my other friends (or better I can invite them to join imechanica)
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Thermodynamics notes from Berkeley
I came across these notes from the material science and engineering department @ UC Berkeley. I have not been through all of the chapters but my impression is that they explain the thermodynamics behind solid modelling well. The course name is Thermodynamics and Phase Transformations
http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/groups/morris/ln201a.htm
"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like to be taught." Winston Churchill
I found these two books
I found these two books very clear:
Thermodynamics by Fermi (a sort of Bible on thermodunamics..)
Mechanics of Solid Materials
by Jean Lemaitre and Jean-Louis Chaboche
(more oriented to mechanis..)