Applied Thermodynamics for Engineering Technologists

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This book is terrible, first published many decades ago and never updated since then. There is nothing good in it, theory is terrible,diagrams are hand made and have very bad quality(btw there are very few diagrams/graphs). Each chapter has hardly 15~ 20 questions... Overall a terrible book!

I'm reading this book and I can say that it's a very good book about engineering applications but its theory is not "very" complete .It explains the things on an easy way to understand but if you need more understanding on thermodynamical phenomena , you should read other texts though . This is a good book for people who has never studied Thermodynamics

I am recommended this book to be used in Thermodynamics lecture in all University. Explain detail all thermodynamic equations.Best regards,Faizal (faizalmalek@yahoo.co.uk)

I've just finished the last question of the last chapter of this book. It's taken nearly a year, but I've had a crack at nearly all the end-of-chapter questions. I found it was levelled quite well for my sort of brain power, i.e. pretty good at maths and science, but certainly not exceptional. The questions are certainly very challenging, but usually not impossible. You would need to get hold of the booklet, Thermodynamics and Transport Properties of Fluids, by G.F.C. Rogers and Y.R.Mayhew to do these. I didn't mind that as I quite enjoyed searching through the tables and referencing them across. It made a lot of the questions like very hard sudoko puzzles (I also bought Enthalpy-Entropy Diagram for Steam by D.C. Hickson and F.R.Taylor, but I didn't find this such good value, especially as it's difficult to photocopy and I didn't want to draw on mine). The chapters have plenty of examples throughout, and there is usually one you can refer to while attempting the questions. Each chapter's material and examples are arranged quite systematically with respect to the questions, so you don't have to hunt around too hard. The main exception to this was chapter 7 on combustion, which I found impossible. Some of the topics covered may not be strictly thermodynamics, including the chapters on nozzles and jet propulsion, and the chapter on heat transfer. Apart from the chapter on combustion, I found these the most difficult in the book. The chapter on heat transfer is enormous. I'm sure I spotted a few little mistakes in the text, but very few. My biggest problem with the book was that, in the first few chapters, it generally defined work and heat in terms of internal energy, i.e. Q+W = U2-U1; however, it then started referring to work and heat in terms of enthalpy, i.e. Q+W = H2-H1, and I don't think it explained why, leaving me somewhat perplexed.

The item is as good as new, reached in time. A valuable book for thermodynamics, covers all the fields in details, would detonatly recommend for beginners as well as advance readers. Bought this for an NGO which sends books to Pakistan for students who can't afford expensive books.

It's an excellent book, which I use for my work!

Good reference book bought to supplement my degree course reading material. Now kept on my desk in the Design Office

good book that goes through the various steps in an orderly fashiongood examples to give to students to work with