Statistical MechanicsUnlike most other texts on the subject, this clear, concise introduction to the theory of microscopic bodies treats the modern theory of critical phenomena. Provides up-to-date coverage of recent major advances, including a self-contained description of thermodynamics and the classical kinetic theory of gases, interesting applications such as superfluids and the quantum Hall effect, several current research applications, The last three chapters are devoted to the Landau-Wilson approach to critical phenomena. Many new problems and illustrations have been added to this edition. |
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... hard - sphere boundary condition by an inhomogeneous term for the wave equation . Such an idea is familiar in electrostatics , where to find the electrostatic potential in the presence of a metallic sphere ( with some given boundary ...
... hard - sphere boundary condition by an inhomogeneous term for the wave equation . Such an idea is familiar in electrostatics , where to find the electrostatic potential in the presence of a metallic sphere ( with some given boundary ...
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Kerson Huang. chapter 19 HARD - SPHERE BOSE GAS 19.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM A hard - sphere Bose gas is a collection of N spinless bosons , each of mass m , contained in a box of volume V , with the boundary condition that the wave ...
Kerson Huang. chapter 19 HARD - SPHERE BOSE GAS 19.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM A hard - sphere Bose gas is a collection of N spinless bosons , each of mass m , contained in a box of volume V , with the boundary condition that the wave ...
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... hard- sphere Bose gas in the present approximation . The result is not qualita- tively different from that discussed in Sec . 13.5 . Finally we note that in the hard - sphere Bose gas there can only be two thermodynamic phases , namely ...
... hard- sphere Bose gas in the present approximation . The result is not qualita- tively different from that discussed in Sec . 13.5 . Finally we note that in the hard - sphere Bose gas there can only be two thermodynamic phases , namely ...
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THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS | 3 |
SOME APPLICATIONS OF THERMODYNAMICS | 33 |
THE PROBLEM OF KINETIC THEORY | 55 |
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