Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics

Tangentially related: It appears that TD ideas pop up in diffusion models, VAEs and neural net training dynamics. Any author/reading advice on links between thermodynamics, information, and neural nets?

Love the price transparency, the obvious followup question is where the other ~85% of the pie goes when I buy a ~50€ paper book, if the author only earns a little under 15%?

I imagine printing will be about 2 to 5€, if it's not ultra cheap print on demand refuse. Is the rest all for publishers and Amazon dot com?

Hello,

The textbook seems nice and clear. The only nitpick i have is that it should talk more about equations of state. I understand that it may not be the focus of the text, but mentioning the current state of equations of state (SAFTs, cubics, multiparameter) would help guide readers looking on how to generate their own steam tables for their fluid of interest, even if the advice is just "go use CoolProp"

On the other hand, i really like the ilustrations on turbomachinery, helps ground the theoretical content.

I'd love to send you a few euros; but the checkout process requires both an email and a cell number. Are those strictly necessary to authorize a cc payment?

Is it chemical engineering thermodynamics or the mechanical engineering one?

Engineering books are very expensive in my country. I want to give calculus a spin. Spivak is a hundred dollars.

Nice, I’ll definitely check this out. You might want to look at optimising the PDF, it’s sitting at 40MB right now.