States of Matter
Published on 26. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-486-64927-6 (ISBN)
Description
This uniquely comprehensive overview by a prominent CalTech physicist provides a modern, rigorous, and integrated treatment of the key physical principles and techniques related to gases, liquids, solids, and their phase transitions. Topics include thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electronics in metals, Bose condensation, fluid structure, potential energy, Weiss molecular field theory, and many other subjects. 1975 edition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-486-64927-6 (9780486649276)
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Person
David L. Goodstein is Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where in 1995 he was named the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor. His other books include Feynman's Lost Lecture and On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science.