For transport phenomena (momentum, mass, heat) I recommend Bird, Stewart, Lightfoot over Welty, Wicks, Wilson, Rohrer or Deen. WWWR is good if you need a quick reference and Deen is great for mathematical treatments, but nothing beats BSL if you are trying to actually learn transport phenomena.
For Physical Chemistry, McQuarrie and Simon is better than Atkins.
For basic Calculus, James Stewart has the best treatment.
Transport Phenomena (Bird, Stewart, Lightfoot)
Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer (Welty, Wicks, Wilson, Rohrer)
Analysis of Transport Phenomena (Deen)
Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach (McQuarrie and Simon)
Physical Chemistry (Atkins, de Paula)
When I have read McQuarrie and Simon, I can recommend one of the last two over the other and Wedler’s “Lehrbuch der Physikalischen Chemie” (which I already like less than Atkins).
I did not read McQuarrie and Simon but instead fell in love with “Physical Chemistry from a Different Angle” by Georg Job and Regina Rüffler. It is >> Atkins, Wedler
It finally made me understand thermodynamics quite intuitively (!) and is very friendly towards people relatively uncomfortable with calculus.
In general, it makes great efforts to teach, instead of just going through the material.
Topic I’d recommend it for: Physical chemistry (including thermodynamics, transport phenomena, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics)
The only caveat: They use somewhat different notation and formulations of much of physical chemistry mathematics. I think that theirs is much better and undoes a lot of the idiosyncrasies of the past 150 years, while explicitly explaining why those happened. This alone helped me understand much of classical thermodynamics better. In the last chapter, they explain how the usual formulations are related to theirs.
For transport phenomena (momentum, mass, heat) I recommend Bird, Stewart, Lightfoot over Welty, Wicks, Wilson, Rohrer or Deen. WWWR is good if you need a quick reference and Deen is great for mathematical treatments, but nothing beats BSL if you are trying to actually learn transport phenomena.
For Physical Chemistry, McQuarrie and Simon is better than Atkins.
For basic Calculus, James Stewart has the best treatment.
I need book titles, please.
Transport Phenomena (Bird, Stewart, Lightfoot) Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer (Welty, Wicks, Wilson, Rohrer) Analysis of Transport Phenomena (Deen)
Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach (McQuarrie and Simon) Physical Chemistry (Atkins, de Paula)
When I have read McQuarrie and Simon, I can recommend one of the last two over the other and Wedler’s “Lehrbuch der Physikalischen Chemie” (which I already like less than Atkins).
I did not read McQuarrie and Simon but instead fell in love with “Physical Chemistry from a Different Angle” by Georg Job and Regina Rüffler. It is >> Atkins, Wedler It finally made me understand thermodynamics quite intuitively (!) and is very friendly towards people relatively uncomfortable with calculus. In general, it makes great efforts to teach, instead of just going through the material.
Topic I’d recommend it for: Physical chemistry (including thermodynamics, transport phenomena, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics)
The only caveat: They use somewhat different notation and formulations of much of physical chemistry mathematics. I think that theirs is much better and undoes a lot of the idiosyncrasies of the past 150 years, while explicitly explaining why those happened. This alone helped me understand much of classical thermodynamics better. In the last chapter, they explain how the usual formulations are related to theirs.