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Re: textbook on thermal physics

Dan Wilkins (wilkins@unomaha.edu) writes:

In the fall, I will be teaching our course on thermal physics,
which is at the junior-senior level. But I am ready for a change from my
previous textbook (Stowe).
....

am open to any good book, esp. if it's not too voluminous--I can cover
about 300 pages per semester.)
Alternatively, does anyone have a comment on Espinola's recent
book, or on Zemansky-Dittman, of which I recently received examination
copies.
to me privately at wilkins@unomaha.edu .

I teach thermo & stat mech out of Espinola. I like the order of topics and the
pacing of the text. I can cover almost the whole 300 pages in a semester.

The text needs to be revised for typos, etc., and the notation should be
"regularized."

Regards, PRB

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