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2020 October 11
- Chapter 2: Section 2.4: Two lines above equation 2.4.11: “right” changed to “left”.
- Chapter 2: Section 2.7: Equations 2.7.2, 2.7.3 corrected.
- Chapter 2: Section 2.8: Below equation 2.8.4: Reference to 2.7.4 changed to 2.8.4.
- Chapter 4: Section 4.0: Below equation 4.0.2: “1” changed to “a”.
- Chapter 6: Section 6.3: Page 17: Line 4: “a” changed to “are”.
- Chapter 6: Section 6.3: Page 18: Line 1: Correction to B-coefficient.
- Chapter 6: Section 6.4: Figures VI.3 and VI.4 repaired.
- Chapter 8: Section 8.1: Above equation 8.1.5: Reference to Section 5.5 changed to 6.5.
- Chapter 11: Section 11.7: Page 12: Line 10 from bottom: Q changed to W.
- Chapter 11: Section 11.7: Page 12: Line 3 from bottom: V changed to P.
- Chapter 12: Section 12.10: Reference to 12.8.3 changed to 12.9.3.
- Chapter 12: Section 12.11: Reference to 12.6.18 changed to 12.6.12a.
- Chapter 12: Section 12.13: Equation 12.13.9, k changed to R.
- Chapter 14: Page 2: Line 1: “To increase in the” changed to “To increase the”.
2020 August 7
- Chapter 7: Section 7.3: Paragraph 4: Second sentence omitted.
2020 January 21
- Chapter 1: Section 1.2: New sentence on Joule’s brewery.
- Chapter 1: Section 1.4 re-written and re-named.
- Chapter 4: Section 4.5: Page 10: line 1: “spaces” corrected to “space”.
2020 January 16
- Chapter 4: Section 4.5 (Heat Conduction in Gases and Liquids) added.
- Chapter 6: Section 6.3: Sentence at top of page 11 concerning Clausius c-factor re-written. Entries for a and b in the Dieterici line interchanged. Expanded notes on the virial equation and the Boyle temperature.
2020 January 7
- Chapter 6: Section 6.3: An alternative derivation of critical molar volume provided.
2015 March 12
- Chapter 11: Section 11.3: Modification to equation 11.3.2 and to the line immediately above it.
2013 March 5
- Chapter 11: Section 11.3: Changes made to the exercise at the end of the section.
2013 February 26
- Chapter 6: Section 6.1: Reference to "National Institute of Science and Technology" corrected to "National Institute of Standards and Technology".
- Chapter 10: Section 10.3: A "P" in equation 10.3.10 corrected to "V".
2013 February 22
- Chapter 6: Section 6.4: Additional paragraph inserted concerning the triple point of water.
2013 January 21
- Chapter 17: Section 17.8: Paragraph 2: Line 5: "we" changed to "was".
2013 January 10
- Chapters 6 and 18: Sections 6.1 and 18.4: Comments have been added concerning the proposed new definition of Avogadro's and Boltzmann's constants likely to come into effect in 2015.
- Chapter 12: Section 12.13: Paragraph added following equation 12.13.2.
2013 January 9
- Chapter 8: Section 8.9: Some details on the numerical integration of equation 8.9.1 added.
2012 July 26
- Chapter 11: Section 11.8: Paragraph on real heat pumps and air conditioners added at end of section.
2012 June 15
- Chapter 16: Section 16.2: Page 3, line 7, "final" changed to "finite".
2012 January 9
- Chapters 10, 13, 14, and 17: A few minor typographical errors corrected, and some references to equations renumbered.
2011 December 28
- Fixed corrupted Chapter 7 pdf.
2011 December 12
- Chapters 7 and 12: A few minor typographical errors corrected, and some references to equations renumbered.
2011 November 21
- Chapter 6: Section 6.3: Near bottom of page 8, reference to equation 6.3.12 changed to equations 6.3.14 and 6.3.15.
- Chapter 6: Section 6.4: Last paragraph, page 19, abbreviation TP changed to TL.
2011 September 22
- Chapter 4: Section 4.2: Correction to left hand side of equation 4.2.1. Thanks to Dr. Justin Albert.
2011 September 7
- Extensively revised.
- Chapter 18 (Experimental Measurements) added.
2011 February 9
- Chapter 17: Section 17.9 (Binary Alloys) added.
- Chapter 17: Section 17.10 (Ternary Alloys) added.
2010 May 28
- Chapter 10: Section 10.5: Blackbody radiation – new material added.
2008 December 17
- Chapter 9: Section 9.2: Two paragraphs added.
- Chapter 12: Section 12.9: Some additional material after equation 12.9.4
- Chapter 13: Section 13.1: A paragraph added.
- Chapter 17: Section 17.8: A paragraph added, and a spelling mistake corrected.
2008 October 6
- Chapter 8: Section 8.10 (Heat Capacities of Solids) added.
- Chapter 13: Section 13.1: Additional material added.
2008 Septemer 4
2008 February 10
2006 September 5
2006 April 12
- Chapter 7: Section 7.4: Last paragraph: "Order of mixing" corrected to "entropy of mixing".
2006 February 6
- Chapter 6: Section 6.3: Some additional material.
- Chapter 7: Section 7.4: Three minor grammatical errors corrected.
2006 January 10
2005 March 20
- Chapter 15: Some small grammatical mistakes attended to.
2005 March 17
- List of contents: Chapter 17: Section 17.7: Spelling of Duhem corrected.
- Chapter 6: Section 6.8: Equation 6.8.1 re-written.
- Chapter 8: Section 8.2: Spelling of temperature corrected in penultimate paragraph.
- Chapter 12: Section 12.4: Two words added to sentence following equation 12.4.6.
- Chapter 12: Section 12.9: Spelling corrected on line following equation 12.9.3.
- Chapter 12: Sections 12.4 and 12.9: Some equations renumbered.
- Chapter 13: Section 13.1: Unnumbered equation following equation 13.1.5 corrected.
- Chapter 13: Section 13.6: Spelling correction in first paragraph.
- Chapter 15: Section 15.1: Symbol for Helmholtz function changed from F to A.
- Chapter 17: Section 17.5: First paragraph. "equations" corrected to "functions".
- Chapter 17: Section 17.7: Before equation 17.7.4, "than" corrected to "that".
2005 March 01
- Chapter 7: Section 7.4: Two sentences added to antepenultimate paragraph.
2004 October 25
- All chapters: back online and updated.
2004 March 26
- All chapters: Minor proof-reading and spelling errors corrected.
2004 March 8
- Chapter 6: A paragraph inserted at the end of Section 6.4.
- Chapter 8: Two paragraphs added to Section 8.5.
- Chapter 10: Sentence added following equation 10.4.8.
- Chapter 11 (Heat Engines) added.
- Chapter 12 (Free Energy) added.
- Chapter 13 (Expansion, Compression, and the TdS Equations) added.
- Chapter 14 (The Clausius-Clapeyron Equation) added.
- Chapter 15 (Adiabatic Demagnetization) added.
- Chapter 16 (Chemical Thermodynamics) added.
2004 February 12
- Chapter 7 (The First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics) added.
- Chapter 8 (Heat Capacity, and the Expansion of Gases) added.
- Chapter 9 (Enthalpy) added.
- Chapter 10 (The Joule and Joule-Thomson Experiments) added.
2004 February 2
- Chapter 1 (Introductory Remarks) added.
- Chapter 2 (Partial Derivatives) added.
- Chapter 3 (Temperature) added.
- Chapter 4 (Thermal Conduction) added.
- Chapter 5 (Thermodynamic Processes) added.
- Chapter 6 (Properties of Gases) added.
- Updates page began.
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