As the title states I'm looking for a textbook (or other resource) that can walk me through introductory thermodynamics. My lecturer has prescribed Cengal which is a book that explains concepts well but doesn't do as great with problems.
I'm halfway though the semester and I'll freely admit that I haven't dedicated the required time to this but I find it incredibly hard to study, this course is unlike any I've done before and the principles and concepts are being explained by the lecturer who I think assumes that we've got more background knowledge on this stuff than we actually do.
I really like the Hibbler style books where in dynamics I essentially taught myself the course after I started falling behind. The problems increased in difficulty nicely where for example over 12-13 problems you'd go from a box on a flat surface being pushed all the way to one on a ramp with springs attached, forces opposing movement and other funky stuff going on. I struggled through that course but managed to come out with a really good grade as i just worked through nearly every "introductory" problem in the textbook which really worked well for me. My lecturer for this course has good intentions and is committed to their students but sets crazy hard questions at the get go that just overwhelm us instead of starting with the "box on the ground" problem. The lecturer is an extremely smart person who I think assumes everyone is on the same level as they are- I've come into engineering late (27 y.o) and this is probably one of the hardest courses I've done just because conceptually it's not making sense to me how to tackle problems. Chegg has definitely copped a beating from me this semester.
Cheers for reading this mess if you're still here.
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