Concepts in Thermal Physics (Second edition)

I would rate this one of the better undergraduate physics books. Why? Because it most effectively teaches and stresses the important physics behind thermodynamics; this is something that most textbooks don't do. Once the physics are learnt and deeply understood, going up to higher level books is easy. Having said that, the book could be improved by the authors having given more (at least 2x as many) questions as they have in the current book.

What's there to say that has not been already said? This book is awesome!

Great page and print quality

Very GOODLIKE BRAND NEW

This book is a very nice textbook for an undergraduate statistical physics course. It treats the basics well, explains kinetic theory and thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, as well as some nonequilibrium physics. The chapters are short and self-contained. The examples are interesting and well chosen (for example, the Stirling engine is included in the types of engines treated). For general knowledge a biographical page is included of many of the names mentioned.This book contrasts strongly with a book like Greiner Stocke and Neiser, which aims at very rigorous mathematical foundations. For me, this was missing somewhat, but for modern undergrad courses, probably this approach works very well. (Especially, if the students taking the course are not all physicists, but engineers, or from other science disciplines.) The accessible explanation and treatment of some quite complex phenomena, (for example, Kramers-Kronig relations, Onsager reciprocity) , is a definite virtue of Blundell and Blundell.

Really nice

Good book

Very poor quality of paper and printing (see attached picture)