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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Frederick Reif |
ISBN: | 9780070518001 0070518009 |
OCLC Number: | 500374763 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1965]. |
Description: | x, 651 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction to statistical methods -- Statistical description of systems of particles -- Statistical thermodynamics -- Macroscopic parameters and their measurement -- Simple applications of macroscopic thermodynamics -- Basic methods and results of statistical mechanics -- Simple applications of statistical mechanics -- Equilibrium between phases or chemical species -- Quantum statistics of ideal gases -- Systems of interacting particles -- Magnetism and low temperatures -- Elementary kinetic theory of transport processes -- Transport theory using the relaxation time approximation -- Near-exact formulation of transport theory -- Irreversible processes and fluctuations. |
Series Title: | McGraw-Hill series in fundamentals of physics. An undergraduate textbook program |
Responsibility: | F. Reif. |
Abstract:
Designed for the junior-senior thermodynamics course, this book attempts to introduce the reader to the disciplines of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and kinetic theory from a modern point of view. The presentation develops physical insight by stressing the microscopic content of the theory.
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