AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THERMODYNAMICS OF PURE SUBSTANCES

This introductory textbook presents the essential foundations needed to understand the behaviour of liquids, gases, and solids. Thermodynamics provides a unifying framework for describing the processes that occur in these three phases of matter, relating heat, work, and temperature to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation.

In this book, we focus on the core ideas, guiding the reader through the four laws of thermodynamics and illustrating their practical…