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Are there any books/articles that apply abstract coordinate free differential geometry to basic thermodynamics?

The mathematical structure of thermodynamics by Peter Salamon (pdf) would be an example, but i would like a more abstract natural formulation of application of differential geometry or even geometric ...
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positions of a methane molecule with carbon atom at the origin

Let $\text{CH}_4$ be the molecule of Methane: The four hydrogen atoms form vertices of a regular tetrahedron with the carbon atom in the center of the regular tetrahedron. Here we regard all atoms to ...