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This manual contains more or less complete solutions for every problem in the book. Should you find errors in any of the solutions, please bring them to my attention. Over the years, I have tried to enrich my lectures by including historical information on the significant developments in thermodynamics, and biographical sketches of the people involved. The multivolume Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles C. Gillispie and published by C. Scribners, New York, has been especially useful for obtaining biographical and, to some extent, historical information. [For example, the entry on Anders Celsius points out that he chose the zero of his temperature scale to be the boiling point of water, and 100 to be the freezing point. Also, the intense rivalry between the English and German scientific communities for credit for developing thermodynamics is discussed in the biographies of J.R. Mayer, J. P. Joule, R. Clausius (who introduced the word entropy) and others.] Other sources of biographical information includes various encyclopedias, Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology by I. Asimov, published by Doubleday & Co., (N.Y., 1972), and, to a lesser extent, Nobel Prize
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