I am a physics student who has just started my master's program and am taking a course on classical non-equilibrium thermodynamics. I am looking for a book that can help me learn this subject. Are there any online books (kindle, springer,etc.) on this topic?
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1$\begingroup$ what is non-classical thermodynamics? $\endgroup$– hyportnexCommented Nov 20, 2023 at 14:07
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$\begingroup$ well, thermodynamics always involves statistics in some form or other, and this also exists as a non-classical theory. Therefore classical, so that there is a distinction to quantum statistics. $\endgroup$– Eman_YalpsidCommented Nov 20, 2023 at 14:56
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$\begingroup$ Possible duplicates: physics.stackexchange.com/q/226929/2451 and links therein. $\endgroup$– Qmechanic ♦Commented Nov 20, 2023 at 16:26
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So, if by classical you mean phenomenological, that is anything non-statistical, then I would suggest the general review book Lavenda: Thermodynamics of irreversible processes, see here, in which each chapter is one flavor of the subject with many references, the first five chapters is reasonably easy to read, the rest is not so.
But I also urge you to start with three very readable and rightly famous classical papers that "launched" the subject.
(1) Eckart: The Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes. I. The Simple Fluid https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.58.267
(2) Bridgman: The Thermodynamics of Plastic Deformation and Generalized Entropy https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.22.56
(3) Tolman & Fine: On the Irreversible Production of Entropy https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.20.51