Learn Thermodynamics: Best Resources & Textbooks

[L-R]

Hello, being kind of new to thermodynamics, does anybody have any recommendations where a good place to start learning is. Any online info or textbook I could buy?

Thanks

 

[jtbell]

How much physics and math have you studied already? Have you studied a typical first-year intro physics book (e.g. Halliday & Resnick, Young & Freedman, etc.) which includes some basic thermo, or are you starting completely from scratch with thermo (or even with physics in general)?

Also note that if you want to study thermo above the intro-physics level, you need to know enough calculus to be comfortable with partial derivatives. Above the introductory level, thermodynamics uses partial derivatives a lot.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

While the answer will greatly depend upon the OP's answer to @jtbell's question above, if

Hello, being kind of new to thermodynamics, does anybody have any recommendations where a good place to start learning is. Any online info or textbook I could buy?

Thanks

The proper answer to your question will depend greatly on your answer to @jtbell 's question above. If you have studied some introductory thermodynamics before, and you know the basic concepts of calculus, then you can check out this lecture course from NPTEL. Prof. Arijit K. De teaches thermodynamics from almost the scratch to the higher topics (all of the lectures haven't been released as of February 11, 2018). But I'll recommend learning the basics from some good book like Halliday before starting with the lectures.

 

[Chestermiller]

Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics by Moran et al

 

[vanhees71]

A traditional approach with phenomenological thermodynamics first and then statistics is the very clearly written textbook

H. B. Callen, Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics, John Wiley&Sons, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore, 2 ed., 1985.

I prefer the statistical-physics-first approach, which is very nicely represented by the corresponding volume of the Berkeley Physics course (written by F. Reif).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0070702195/?tag=pfamazon01-20