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Thermodynamics for Beginners



with worked examples



a very student-friendly undergraduate textbook
got over 49,000 readers (ResearchGate Stats)
ISBN: 955-589-090-0



Why write a thermo book
when there are so many
thermo books already?



Thermodynamics often confuses a beginner, because of the complex way it is presentation by many thermodynamics books. Majority of my students, engineering undergraduates, wrote in their course-teacher evaluation sheets that they found it hard to relate to thermodynamics. They made one thing very clear to me that, if they were to like the subject thermodynamics, the subject matter should be presented in a simple-and-easy-to-understand style. I took up the challenge, and wrote this book. Slowly, to my surprise, thermodynamics became the favourite subject among the majority of the engineering undergraduates. The beginners, a majority of them, fell in love with thermodynamics. And, I started to enjoy teaching thermodynamics.



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