Modern Thermodynamics: From Heat Engines to Dissipative Structures (Coursesmart)

I am a Chemical Engineer and I'm doing my Ph.D. research on nonlinear dynamics of chemical reactions far from equilibrium. I must say that at the introductory level this is the best textbook combining reaction kinetics and thermodynamics together. I wish I knew about it back in my undergrad because it would have been really helpful. Quite often in our chemical engineering curriculum, we are introduced to both fields at completely different categories, but this book does the wonderful job of building a bridge between the two subjects. Kondepudi is remarkably skilled at explaining the hard concepts developed by Prigogine using such a simple and straightforward language. I would suggest anybody who is interested in going deeper into the work of Prigogine, who was a Nobel Prize winner, read this book as an introduction and get familiar with the terminology. All his other books will become crystal clear and easy to follow. This textbook should be standard in chemical engineering courses.

This is the book that offers you the language of the art. I hope to get the capacity to look at the equations and find meaning in them, to look at many things in life and see the equations. I would not get anything but the best and I believe I have the best book the reason is you can look at the fine description over and over and continually understand better so far.I mean I got this to learn it so I don't miss out on the magic of these guys discoveries I wanted to take a shot at knowing this type of stuff. You have to know what the symbols are and how to look at an equation. It tells you what they are yes but not how to use them. Peace

The book hardly needs my recommendation since the first edition is widely used by physicist, chemist and engineers all over the world. The new additions for sure will be proof to be both useful and enlightening.

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Simplesmente um dos melhores livros a respeito de termodinâmica. Tem uma visão química excelente, incluindo tópicos introdutórios de cinética e colisões. Além dos capítulos finais tratarem da termodinâmica fora do equilíbrio.Você ainda pode encontrar a solução de todos os exercícios, resolvidos por um dos autores, no site: http://sites.google.com/site/modernthermodynamics/ . A senha para abrir os documentos é "chiral98".

El libro lleva un enfoque más orientado hacia la química (es mi percepcion) no deja de ser bueno aunque considero que puede haber mejores, la relación costo presentación la considero no muy buena por que al precio en el que está considero que pudo hacerse una presentación en pasta dura.