After being a PC user for over 15 years, I switched 2 weeks ago to a new powerbook g4. the laptops are the best on the market and the switch was largely spurred by my buying an ipod in october. we'll see how the switch goes on (long term experience) but so far the experience is great.
I'm currently a junior at MIT. I just looked through the book and felt it is pretty well written. One thing that should be considered that all textbooks, just as all heat and mass transfer books, are not made equal.
At MIT both the Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments use Incropera and DeWitt's Heat and Mass Transfer book. The free textbook seems like it may have the potential to be a good alternative, but as always, I judge a textbook more by the quality and relevance of the problems at the end of the chapter than the text itself. since the concepts of heat transfer have been around forever, concepts such as heat exchangers, lumped capacitance, etc. will be uniform throughout free and non-free textbooks.
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After being a PC user for over 15 years, I switched 2 weeks ago to a new powerbook g4. the laptops are the best on the market and the switch was largely spurred by my buying an ipod in october. we'll see how the switch goes on (long term experience) but so far the experience is great.
I'm currently a junior at MIT. I just looked through the book and felt it is pretty well written. One thing that should be considered that all textbooks, just as all heat and mass transfer books, are not made equal.
At MIT both the Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments use Incropera and DeWitt's Heat and Mass Transfer book. The free textbook seems like it may have the potential to be a good alternative, but as always, I judge a textbook more by the quality and relevance of the problems at the end of the chapter than the text itself. since the concepts of heat transfer have been around forever, concepts such as heat exchangers, lumped capacitance, etc. will be uniform throughout free and non-free textbooks.