Recent content by KCook3824

Sounds like Reif is one of the better texts. I should have thought about Landau and Lifshitz, and will take a look at that as well. Thanks everyone

Yes you're right. I wasn't right in front of the book when I posted this and got that wrong. Thanks for the correction.

Hello all, I'm taking a graduate stat mech course that does not use a text and could really use a good text for reference and supplemental reading. It's been about 13 years since my last thermodynamics course so hoping such a text would have a decent review of thermodynamic relations and...

Thanks for the detailed response. I'm still pretty hell bent on going forward with this though. The health is fully under control and short of treatment failing should no longer be an issue. Thanks again

That's a good idea in hadn't considered, thank you. And yes Fall 2022 is my goal to make all this happen.

Bit of an out of the ordinary situation but I completed my BS in 2010 and went into a PhD program. I found myself experiencing severe and potentially life threatening health issues that forced me out of grad school. My health is now under control but I've been out of physics (astronomy was...