[Phys-l] Re; The Abysmal Foundations of Thermodynamics

["Steinert, Jeff" <steinert@goasa.org>]

Derek McKenzie wrote:

> To get to my point, can any of you please refer me to a text, or a
> collection of journal articles, or even a website, that treats
> Thermodynamics with the logical consistency and conceptual clarity that is
> missing from virtually every resource I have ever encountered?

I took a course in Thermodynamics from Clifford Truesdell when I was an
undergraduate at Johns Hopkins thirty years ago.  It still stands out in my
mind as the best course I had in any subject.  Truesdell developed topics
from first principles in a way that made the logical structure clear and
beautiful.  I'd suggest looking for the following:

Truesdell, Clifford A. (1969). *Rational Thermodynamics: A Course of
Lectures on Selected Topics. *Springer-Verlag, 1984 2nd ed.

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