9783540746454 | Springer Verlag, May 4, 2009, cover price $89.99
9783642094118 | Springer Verlag, November 19, 2010, cover price $89.99 |
About this edition: Thermodynamics is the much abused slave of many masters ⢠physicists who love the totally impractical Carnot process, ⢠mechanical engineers who design power stations and refrigerators, ⢠chemists who are successfully synthesizing ammonia and are puzzled by photosynthesis, ⢠meteorologists who calculate cloud bases and predict föhn, boraccia and scirocco, ⢠physico-chemists who vulcanize rubber and build fuel cells, ⢠chemical engineers who rectify natural gas and distil f- mented potato juice, ⢠metallurgists who improve steels and harden surfaces, ⢠- trition counselors who recommend a proper intake of calories, ⢠mechanics who adjust heat exchangers, ⢠architects who construe â and often misconstrue â ch- neys, ⢠biologists who marvel at the height of trees, ⢠air conditioning engineers who design saunas and the ventilation of air plane cabins, ⢠rocket engineers who create supersonic flows, et cetera.