Thermodynamic Weirdness

Thermodynamic Weirdness

Don Lemons
Role: Author

Students of physics, chemistry, and engineering are taught classical thermodynamics through its methods: a “problems first” approach that neglects the subject’s concepts and intellectual structure. In Thermodynamic Weirdness, Don Lemons fills this gap, offering a nonmathematical account of the ideas of classical thermodynamics in all its non-Newtonian “weirdness.” By emphasizing the ideas and their relationship to one another, Lemons reveals the simplicity and coherence of classical thermodynamics.