For my statistical mechanics degree I was told to purchase this book. Amazingly my student loan alone wouldn't cover the cost of this book, so I had to stop wiping my rear with 20s for a few months which was hell. I mean have you ever used common toilet paper? What is this single/double quilted stuff... cardboard? Except for this major disruption with my bowel movements the book proved useful. I now have a degree in a fairly useless field all the while owing in excess of £120,000. Hopefully this really amazing job which I am definitely going to find in this small country will pay for the book. As for improvements I was slightly confused at the 6 maxwell-boltzmann system, it could be explained in more detail like Fermi-Dirac distribution and Bose-Einstein distribution for an ideal gas was.



The real deal clincher here though was by far the fact that this was a hard copy. Soft copies often flop around and are fairly difficult to read when experimenting for interaction among the constituent particles of a real gas. So for me that's why this book is right up there with other books of a similar nature.