Re: Thermo book emergency

["RAUBER, JOEL" <JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU>]

I once use a recently out of print book in a small enrollment course.  Our
bookstore had no trouble locating a sufficient number of used copies.

Joel Rauber

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Bell [mailto:jtbell@PRESBY.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 12:51 PM
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: Thermo book emergency
>
>
> The campus bookstore has just informed me that the book I
> wanted to use
> for next semester's thermo course (Espinola, "Introduction to
> Thermophysics", which I've used for several years) is now out
> of print, so
> I have to choose a different one.
>
> Based on a quick look at my examination copies, Carter's
> "Classical and
> Statistical Thermodynamics" (Prentice Hall, 2001) looks like
> it might be
> my best choice.  Have any of you all used it and can give some quick
> impressions?
>
> The other candidates on my shelf are Sears and Salinger (which I used
> briefly several years ago; old, dry, and tough reading for my
> students),
> Zemansky and Dittman (a bit old, but I could probably use
> it), and Pitzer
> (more for chemists than physicists).  Carter is new (2001)
> and seems to be
> concise but readable.
>
> --
> Jon Bell <jtbell@presby.edu>
> Presbyterian College
> Dept. of Physics and Computer Science        Clinton, South
> Carolina USA