An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases
Published on 20. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
324 pages
978-1-108-00560-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book can be described as a student's edition of the author's Dynamical Theory of Gases. It is written, however, with the needs of the student of physics and physical chemistry in mind, and those parts of which the interest was mainly mathematical have been discarded. This does not mean that the book contains no serious mathematical discussion; the discussion in particular of the distribution law is quite detailed; but in the main the mathematics is concerned with the discussion of particular phenomena rather than with the discussion of fundamentals.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-00560-9 (9781108005609)
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Previous edition
James Jeans
An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases
Book
10/1982
Cambridge University Press
€27.22
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. A preliminary survey; 3. Pressure in a gas; 4. Collisions and Maxwell's law; 5. The free path in a gas; 6. Viscosity conduction of heat; 7. Diffusion; 8. General theory of a gas not in a steady state; 9. General statistical mechanics and thermodynamics; 10. Calorimetry and molecular structure.