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# An Introduction to Thermal Physics

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Review: My favorite thermal physics book - I’ve been using this text for a year now; its my favorite. The author covers the topic at a sophisticated level, doing so carefully and step-by-step. The exercises are essential, and are just challenging enough to push the student ahead. The writing style is friendly and straightforward. I’ve used a number of other textbooks yet always return to Schroeder.
Review: The chapters concerning the key fundamental results on statistical mechanics (the various ensembles and distribution statistics) - This is an outstanding introductory book on thermal physics, with readability and clarity put at the forefront. The author painstakingly explains key derivations, delineating practically every step with a masterful combination of prose and equations. The chapters concerning the key fundamental results on statistical mechanics (the various ensembles and distribution statistics) are the best I've seen, blowing away McQuarrie (both his undergrad and grad level books) and Chandlers' texts. The graduate level books have their merits, either in depth and/or rigor, but on average, I think Schroeder's approach will allow the readers to get their feet wet the most effectively. It's perfect as either your first read or as a companion piece to more comprehensive, first year graduate level texts. There are very few critical typos, which I think is important for first time readers trying to parse the difference between the jargon (microstates, macrostates, particle states, system states, multiplicity, density of state...). In any case, the author makes great effort in his definitions of terms. You're in good hands, I promise. This book requires just a bit of multi variable calculus but no vector calculus is required. The various transforms (Legendre, Fourier, Laplace, etc.) are only mentioned briefly as means to obtain important results, but they are not a prerequisite. Familiarity with a very rudimentary level of wave function formalism of quantum mechanics becomes crucial in the later chapters. This text contains very few, completely solved examples. I actually liked this approach since it keeps the book slim and compact. The author explains on his website defending his choice. I think the effort he places in explaining the derivations of key ideas step by step more than makes up for the lack of an easily accessible solution manual. Finally, I like to point out that the price of this modern, hardcover text is close to one-third of its close relatives. Take a look at the price tags of Ahlfors, Baby Rudin, 2nd edition Sakurai, 3rd edition Boas, etc.... It's one of the most generously priced, recently produced hardcover science texts on the market today. Five stars all the way!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #82,823 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Thermodynamics (Books) #8 in Chemistry (Books) #18 in Mathematical Physics (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (351) |
| Dimensions  | 9.6 x 0.9 x 7.4 inches |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0192895559 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0192895554 |
| Item Weight  | 1.89 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 448 pages |
| Publication date  | February 15, 2021 |
| Publisher  | Oxford University Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My favorite thermal physics book
*by J***S on February 28, 2026*

I’ve been using this text for a year now; its my favorite. The author covers the topic at a sophisticated level, doing so carefully and step-by-step. The exercises are essential, and are just challenging enough to push the student ahead. The writing style is friendly and straightforward. I’ve used a number of other textbooks yet always return to Schroeder.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The chapters concerning the key fundamental results on statistical mechanics (the various ensembles and distribution statistics)
*by D***N on January 4, 2016*

This is an outstanding introductory book on thermal physics, with readability and clarity put at the forefront. The author painstakingly explains key derivations, delineating practically every step with a masterful combination of prose and equations. The chapters concerning the key fundamental results on statistical mechanics (the various ensembles and distribution statistics) are the best I've seen, blowing away McQuarrie (both his undergrad and grad level books) and Chandlers' texts. The graduate level books have their merits, either in depth and/or rigor, but on average, I think Schroeder's approach will allow the readers to get their feet wet the most effectively. It's perfect as either your first read or as a companion piece to more comprehensive, first year graduate level texts. There are very few critical typos, which I think is important for first time readers trying to parse the difference between the jargon (microstates, macrostates, particle states, system states, multiplicity, density of state...). In any case, the author makes great effort in his definitions of terms. You're in good hands, I promise. This book requires just a bit of multi variable calculus but no vector calculus is required. The various transforms (Legendre, Fourier, Laplace, etc.) are only mentioned briefly as means to obtain important results, but they are not a prerequisite. Familiarity with a very rudimentary level of wave function formalism of quantum mechanics becomes crucial in the later chapters. This text contains very few, completely solved examples. I actually liked this approach since it keeps the book slim and compact. The author explains on his website defending his choice. I think the effort he places in explaining the derivations of key ideas step by step more than makes up for the lack of an easily accessible solution manual. Finally, I like to point out that the price of this modern, hardcover text is close to one-third of its close relatives. Take a look at the price tags of Ahlfors, Baby Rudin, 2nd edition Sakurai, 3rd edition Boas, etc.... It's one of the most generously priced, recently produced hardcover science texts on the market today. Five stars all the way!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Intuitive and well-written for undergraduates!
*by A***R on May 14, 2020*

In the first 3 chapters I felt a definite lack of rigor, like I was back in 1st year university course, but I understand now that it was to focus on understanding the concepts in thermodynamics and also to build some intuition for students who (like myself) have not had a formal course in statistics. Chapter 4 is a pretty good section on applied thermodynamics, especially for engineering students. Chapters 5-7 are truly where the rigor picks up, and he derives many of the first results in these chapters, with easy to follow commentary. As someone who took the later part of my course on quarantine, chapter 7 is a bit difficult to grasp if you don't have a professor with you. Other than that my only real complaint is that sometimes the exercises seem more like a test of algebra and patience. Though, this is mostly made up for with a lot of good applied and theoretical questions, so hopefully your professor gives good homework sets. Can't really think of a better undergraduate thermo book!

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