Undergraduate students of thermodynamics have difficulty understanding the subject and its material. There are two factors in the usual appreach that make a student's introduction to thermodynamics more difficult than is necessary. The way in which the state functions are introduced is not easily related to the students' previous background in mathematics.
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An Introduction to Equilibrium Thermodynamics - Part 1
Undergraduate students of thermodynamics have difficulty understanding the subject and its material. There are two factors in the usual appreach that make a student's introduction to thermodynamics more difficult than is necessary. The way in which the state functions are introduced is not easily related to the students' previous background in mathematics.
Undergraduate students of thermodynamics have difficulty understanding the subject and its material. There are two factors in the usual appreach that make a student's introduction to thermodynamics more difficult than is necessary. The way in which the state functions are introduced is not easily related to the students' previous background in mathematics.