Keywords:
Matter -- Properties.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics, this uniquely comprehensive overview provides a rigorous, integrated treatment of physical principles and techniques related to gases, liquids, solids, and their phase transitions. 1975 edition.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (873 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780486795515
Series Statement:
Dover Books on Physics Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1920016
DDC:
530.4
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics -- 1.1 Introduction: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the Perfect Gas -- 1.2 Thermodynamics -- a. The Laws of Thermodynamics -- b. Thermodynamic Quantities -- c. Magnetic Variables in Thermodynamics -- d. Variational Principles in Thermodynamics -- e. Examples of the Use of Variational Principles -- f. Thermodynamic Derivatives -- g. Some Applications to Matter -- 1.3 Statistical Mechanics -- a. Reformulating the Problem -- b. Some Comments -- c. Some Properties of Z and L -- d. Distinguishable States: Application to the Perfect Gas -- e. Doing Sums over States as Integrals -- f. Fluctuations -- 1.4 Remarks on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics -- a. Quantum and Thermodynamic Uncertainties -- b. Status of the Equal Probabilities Postulate -- c. Ensembles -- Appendix A. Thermodynamic Mnemonic -- 2 Perfect Gases -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Ideal Gas -- 2.3 Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Statistics -- 2.4 Slightly Degenerate Perfect Gases -- 2.5 The Very Degenerate Fermi Gas: Electrons in Metals -- 2.6 The Bose Condensation: A First Order Phase Transition -- 3 Solids -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Heat Capacity Dilemma -- a. The Einstein Model -- b. Long Wavelength Compressional Modes -- c. The Debye Model -- 3.3 Normal Modes -- 3.4 Crystal Structures -- 3.5 Crystal Space: Phonons, Photons, and the Reciprocal Lattice -- a. Diffraction of X rays -- b. The Reciprocal Lattice and Brillouin Zones -- c. Umklapp Processes -- d. Some Orders of Magnitude -- 3.6 Electrons in Crystals -- a. A Semiqualitative Discussion -- b. The Kronig-Penney Model -- c. The Fermi Surface: Metal or Nonmetal? -- 4 Liquids and Interacting Gases -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Structure of a Fluid -- a. Measuring the Structure.
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b. The Statistical Mechanics of Structure -- c. Applicability of This Approach -- 4.3 The Potential Energy -- a. The Pair Potential -- b. The Approximation of Pairwise Additivity -- 4.4 Interacting Gases -- a. Cluster Expansions and the Dilute Gas -- b. Behavior and Structure of a Dilute Gas -- c. The Liquefaction of Gases and the Joule-Thomson Process -- d. Higher Densities -- 4.5 Liquids -- a. The Yvon-Born-Green Equation -- b. The Hypernetted Chain and Percus-Yevick Equations -- c. Comments and Comparisons -- 5 Some Special States -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Superfluidity -- a. Properties of Liquid Helium -- b. The Bose Gas as a Model for Superfluidity -- c. Two-Fluid Hydrodynamics -- d. Phonons and Rotons -- e. The Feynman Theory -- f. A Few Loose Ends -- 5.3 Superconductivity -- a. Introduction -- b. Some Thermodynamic Arguments -- c. Electron Pairs -- d. The BCS Ground State -- e. The Superconducting State -- 5.4 Magnetism -- a. Introduction -- b. Magnetic Moments -- c. Paramagnetism -- d. Ferromagnetism -- 6 Critical Phenomena and Phase Transitions -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Weiss Molecular Field Theory -- 6.3 The van der Waals Equation of State -- 6.4 Analogies Between Phase Transitions -- 6.5 The Generalized Theory -- a. Equilibrium Behavior -- b. Fluctuations -- 6.6 Critical Point Exponents -- 6.7 Scaling Laws: Physics Discovers Dimensional Analysis -- 6.8 Evaluation and Summary: Testing the Scaling Laws -- Index.
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