Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics [Hardcover]

Michael J. Moran (Author), Howard N. Shapiro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 9, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0471787353 | ISBN-13: 978-0471787358 | Edition: 6

Now in a Sixth Edition, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics maintains its engaging, readable style while presenting a broader range of applications that motivate student understanding of core thermodynamics concepts. This leading text uses many relevant engineering-based situations to help students model and solve problems.

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About the Author

Dr. Michael J. Moran, is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Ohio State University. He is a specialist in engineering thermodynamics and thermoeconomics. He also works in the area of thermal design and optimization.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 944 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 6 edition (March 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471787353
• ISBN-13: 978-0471787358
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #17 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Physics > Dynamics > Thermodynamics

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, lacks good solutions, November 10, 2009

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Munira Z. Naqui - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (Hardcover)

This is a great (and iconic) book on Thermodynamics. As a student in Mechanical Engineering, I am sure that what I have learned from my Thermodynamics class (and this book, by extension) will be useful. Now, to get into the book:

1. The concepts and theory in this book are expressed in simple language that doesn't require a masters degree to understand.

2. There are many examples and are clearly solved without skipping steps, in both metric and English units. I'm not a huge fan of using English units, but this book goes through the conversion factors (the hardest part) quite clearly and keeps units on all values to make following the examples relatively pain-free.

3. There are a variety of homework problems (usually over 125 per chapter) in both metric and English units. Usually the problems come in pairs; the first problem of a pair will have metric units while the second problem uses English units. As in most texts, the problems get progressively harder, but there are so many problems, that the transition is slow. If you can't figure out, say, problem 8.91, try a problem before it. Usually this will lead you to the correct method of solving 8.91.

4. The only major flaw (and to me, it's a pretty big one), is the lack of answers in the back of the book. There are none in the back of the book, however there are *some* on the book's webpage. Unfortunately, there are only a small fraction of the answers located on the official webpage. TIP: If you look very hard on the internet, there are methods to find worked out solutions.

5. Just before each set of problems at the end of the chapter, there are tables of equations, with explanations of the situations in which to use them. This is really useful when doing the homework or studying.

6. At the end of the book, there are many, many, many tables with thermodynamic data for liquids and gasses, in both English and metric units. There are indexed at the beginning of each appendix which makes it really easy to find the table you're looking for.

I hope this helps.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great text, September 14, 2008

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Lance B. Sjogren (San Pedro, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (Hardcover)

I took a course in Thermo as an undergrad, but I basically just learned how to solve the textbook problems to the point where I was able to pass the tests, but I never got a good intuitive understanding of the subject.

My major was EE so one term of Thermo was a required course but not in the mainstream of my studies, so I never needed to understand it in any greater depth.

I recently retired from my career as an EE and have been wanting to become more knowledgable about energy, since I think it is probably the toughest science/engineering issue facing society for the forseeable future.

It dawned on me at some point that if I want to be knowledgable about energy, I need to do more than just read books about energy sources, I need to have a decent grounding in those technical disciplines that energy technologies are based on. The most obvious was Thermodynamics, although I decided I should also beef up my Chemistry.

And I realized, by golly, I can learn this stuff, because of my engineering background and the fact that I'm not too old for my brain to be decomposing too badly so far.

For the moment, I am studying this book on Thermo.

I am really happy with this book. They really cover the material with a lot of rigor and give a ton of examples which really help get an intuitive understanding of what the concepts mean for practical systems.

I haven't finished the book, but am far enough along to be able to judge it. Right now I'm in the chapter on Exergy. I don't believe we ever got into that in the 1st term Thermo I took 30 years ago or so. The Exergy concept really makes a lot of sense in tying everything together and providing a comprehensive approach toward evaluating the efficiency of a particular system.

I do wonder about the notation, though. They denote exergy with an "E", which seems like it could lead to its being mixed up with energy.

Wikipedia says that Exergy is denoted by the letter "B". Not sure where that came from but it seems like a good idea to use a completely different letter for it.

Aside from some minor issues like that, this book seems outstanding to me. I gather it is the predominant textbook for thermo these days. I would say it deserves that status.

I am really looking forward to the later chapters I haven't gotten to yet on the various types of engines and turbos and whatnot.

For the material to really sink in, I know I will need to read the book a second time, but the second pass should go quite a bit faster than the first.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, March 17, 2008

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This review is from: Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (Hardcover)

This is a very good text book, it is well written and keeps it short and sweet. It gets to the point. One great feature is that it boxes in derivations that are not nessacary to understand, this way you don't get bogged down in a lot of text. There are tons of examples in the book and no mistakes that I could find. You really can read and understand everything from the text, you don't really need a teacher, which is saying alot, because most books are impossible to read and figure out what's going on. I agree the bio part is worthless, but Moran is obviously into that stuff because he always mentioned it in class. It's really not a bad thing...just skip it, who cares if it's in there. Overall if you want a good thermo book, whether it's self taught or in a class, it's a good choice.