Excerpts from An Introduction to Thermal Physics

by Daniel V. Schroeder, Department of Physics, Weber State University

Copyright ©1999, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

My publisher has asked me to post a few excerpts for prospective readers to download. I hope that the following will give some idea of what the book is like.

• Contents (html)
• Contents (pdf, 42K)
• Preface (html)
• Problems on compression of ideal gases, from Section 1.5 (pdf, 38K)
• Very Large Numbers, from Section 2.4 (pdf, 44K)
• Refrigerators, from Section 4.2 (pdf, 44K)
• Free Energy as Available Work, from Section 5.1 (pdf, 90K)

Last modified on February 29, 2000.