Looking for a good introductory book on thermodynamics

[al_9591]

Hi,

I have been studying physics again and I was looking for a good introductory book for thermodynamics. I wanted to know if there is a book in thermodynamics that would be the equivalent to "An introduction to Mechanics" by Kleppner/Kolenkow, or "Electricity and Magnetism" by Purcell? These 2 books were my favorite back in the day. Thanks.

 

[vanhees71]

The thermodynamics volume of the Berkeley physics course is good (the "little Reif"). Another very good one is

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

 

[Chestermiller]

I strongly recommend Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics by Moran et al which has a particularly nice (alternative) development of the concept of entropy in Chapter 6. This book is available for download online.

 

[atyy]

I liked Pippard's Elements of Classical Thermodynamics.
https://books.google.com.sg/books/a...dynamics_For.html?id=GVhaSQ7eBQoC&redir_esc=y

Not a pure thermodynamics book, but Castellan's Physical Chemistry is also nice.
https://books.google.com.sg/books/a...AAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

Kardar's Statistical Physics of Particles is not an introductory book, but has a very succinct development of thermodynamics
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521873428/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics...chanics-of-particles-fall-2013/lecture-notes/

I haven't read Schroeder's An Introduction to Thermal Physics - would love to hear if anyone has comments on it.
https://physics.weber.edu/thermal/overview.html
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201380277/?tag=pfamazon01-20