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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Designed to support the way you learnWhether you learn best by applying knowledge, assimilating information through visuals, working equations, or reading explanations of concepts, Milo Koretsky’s Engineering and Chemical Thermodynamics provides the support you need to develop a deeper and more complete understanding of thermodynamics and its application to real-world problems. Highlights An integrated presentation of molecular concepts with thermodynamic principles provides greater access to the material than mathematical derivations alone. Learning objectives and chapter summaries are organized from the most significant concepts down. Schematic presentations of key concepts help visual learners. End-of-chapter problems promote real synthesis and conceptual understanding. Questions about key points and examples provide opportunities for reflection. Coverage of equilibrium in the solid phase brings you up-to-speed on this increasingly important topic.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Milo D. Koretsky | | Hardcover: | 580 pages | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Publication Date: | November 12, 2003 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0471385867 | | Product Length: | 8.37 inches | | Product Width: | 1.0 inches | | Product Height: | 10.18 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.74 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.0 inches | | Package Width: | 8.0 inches | | Package Height: | 1.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 First edition, but oh well Feb 18, 2005
By Tom_E
"Tom"
This text is good for exactly what it claims: the undergraduate. If you're looking for a good general text on thermodynamics that you can use throughout your career (even as a graduate student), this is NOT it. But if you're looking for an easy-to-approach and helpful book that spoon-feeds you the (admitedly difficult the first time) concepts of thermodynamics, this is the text for you. Koretsky himself is upfront about this in the preface. There are a lot of funny errors in this printing (look in the front cover to see that the units for gravitational acceleration are m^2/s and that a m^3 is only 10^-3 L. That would be a LOT of Coke). But hey, even BS&L (the hailed transport phenomena text of chemical engineering) is full of them (if you don't believe me, check out the correngia on Bird's website at U of W). The charts in the back are somewhat complicated to use, at least a lot more than my favorite textbook of all time, Felder and Rosseau's Introduction to Chemical Engineering. In conclusion, good for the confused and undergraduate, of little value to the graduate and practicing.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Great Text. A Realistic Read. Apr 17, 2012
By Avery A Rose
I received my B.S. in chemical engineering (2005) at OSU and studied this text, in part, under Dr. Koretsky. The text was split into two undergraduate courses. I recently entered a PhD program at Texas A&M and reviewed almost the entire text in preparation for the qualifier. The text information was more than sufficient to pass the thermodynamics portion of the test at Texas A&M.
In reviewing some of the other comments, I noticed that there is an indication that the primary problem is a lack of detail. I believe this text has more than enough detail for 99.9% of thermodynamics students. If you know the material in this text, you will have the required thermodynamics background for most graduate courses in chemical engineering. Additionally, you will be ahead of most other graduate students.
I believe the text is excellent because it is clear and practical. It covers, what appears to me, to be the important topics in a clear way. It can be realistically reviewed in its entirety in two undergraduate courses, plus maybe a couple of self study weeks afterward. I reviewed nearly the entire book in about 1 month during the summer before starting graduate school.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Reliable buyer Mar 02, 2012
By Jboud65
Book was new, just as I expected it and reasonably priced compared to other book stores. Would definitely use this buyer again.
2 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Glib but I Like It. Sep 09, 2004
By Charles Fivelson
VLE by EOS done by hand useing VanderWaal instead of peng-robinson which requires computer. By truncating exponent author makes compressor & turbine calculations, such as for a brayton cycle analysis, possible with a cheap $10 calculater instead of an expensive $100 RPN device. I'm keeping it.
4 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Where is the beef? Totally not recommendable for NE1, sorry! Apr 08, 2005
By Bookinfo
There are many intro texts on thermo out on the market the most valuable and popular of which have been listed and categorized in Koretsky's Appendix F2. Dazzled by the brilliant quality of most other WHE Wiley Higher Education books you have spotted this BRAND NEW Wiley product somehow somewhere and now ask yourself how it compares, since you cannot find it in your J-college library or on site bookstore. If you did, you would not even go for my review here, I am sure. Short, it does +not+ compare: it's not even a competitor! So I should not be reviewing it here in my AMAZON.COM-review 'list of truely competing thermo texts'. I still do because you have always been interested in WHE titles, and especially in its NEW publications. Otherwise you would not be here reading this review ;-)
First you will immediately notice that the book is remarkably short (498p) and not prettily layout; this is +not+ a matter of taste: the book typeset +is+ ugly and makes it look old (-fashioned)! Second, you will notice the inaccurate ("incomplete") notation of state variables dependencies, state functions, equations and formulas, as compared to Sandler's-book. Third, after page browsing through the entire book, you will notice that the book +is+ different in conception, structure and actual setup from most other thermo books. Good or not? Well, all chapters begin very promising with long narrative introductions but after having read the (surprisingly short) chapters you ask yourself 'was that all?' and 'wasnt anything missed out and where's the beef?'. And you are right, the book +is+ incomplete in numerous respects. On the one hand, the explanations of concepts together with the nice and many figures (generally you dont see that many illustrations in thermo texts, do you?) are very good and helpful. Text, side equations/formulas and examples are integrated into one solid unitary flow, which makes the thermo (intro) narration easy to read and follow. On the other hand, this unity/flow doesnt allow for a systematic, well-structured, organized development of main formulas: the disorganization of presented material can lead to considerable confusion (similar to SmithVanNess-book!).
Tragically the beef (the Appendices start on page 499. the very last page number is 553, so the book +is+ short in scope) has been cut down to some concise and superficial yet neat treatment of the most often used and practical equations in thermo, only. Incomplete book, in fact I am missing many many basic formulas, usually presented in form of collection of equations or a collective table.
Examples are stepwise detailed, good!, but contentwise trivial, bad! Same with the end-of-chapter problems which hardly surpass the introductory educational level. Wiley's new product: Missing depth, missing advanced material, missing completeness, missing comprehensiveness. So why buy? Only for the good narrative flow and good explanation/visualization of concepts? No. Better choose one from the Appendix F2!
I dont expect any other reviewer to defend the overall quality of this rare disappointment by WILEY HIGHER EDUCATION. I dont expect any student (libraries yes) to decide for this text if he/she's given free purchase choice among all competitors (Koretsky's cannot be called a competitor!). I do expect the publisher to discontinue it after this first edition c2004. But hey, before WILEY does so...go and get a copy of the FREE ThermoSolver software. It is the most outstanding and recommended feature of Koretsky's book and a true masterpiece of software engineering!
Rated two stars. One for the highly useful software, half a star for the collective of the few Pro's (helpful figures, many figures, integrative flow of narration, good explanation of concepts), and another half for WILEY's courage to release a didactically new, conceptually based teaching approach to introductory chemical thermodynamics (but what a failure the total outcome, the end product!). If you are bored (like me), feel free to check out a library copy, otherwise stay with your purchased Sandler's and supplemental readings published by Prentice Hall, Butterworth-Heinemann, Wiley-Interscience, and Springer (see Appendix F2, and the commented list in Poling/Prausnitz/O'Connell 5th ed. 2001). And if you can wait, a new edition of Sandler's (4/E) is expected to be out in spring 2006! (more prospective info at wiley.com or globalbooksinprint.com)
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