Research Catalog

Title

Problems in thermodynamics and statistical physics; editor P. T. Landsberg.

Author

Landsberg, Peter Theodore.

Publication

London, Pion, 1971.

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Description

[4], viii, 573 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Statistical physics
• Thermodynamics
• Statistical mechanics

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The laws of thermodynamics / P.T. Landsberg -- Statistical theory of information and of ensembles / P.T. Landsberg -- Statistical mechanics of ideal systems / P.T. Landsberg -- Ideal classical gases of polyatomic molecules / C.J. Wormald -- Ideal relativistic classical and quantum gases / P.T. Lansberg -- Non-electrolyte liquids and solutions / A.J.B. Cruickshank -- Phase stability, co-existence, and criticality / A.J.B. Cruickshank -- Surfaces / J.M. Haynes -- The imperfect classical gas / P.C. Hemmer -- The imperfect quantum gas / D. ter Haar -- Phase transitions / D. ter Haar -- Cooperative phenomean / D. ter Haar -- Green function methods / D. ter Haar -- The plasma / D. ter Haar -- Negative temperatures and population inversion / U.M. Titulaer -- Recombination rate theory in semiconductors / J.S. Blakemore -- Transport in gases / D.J. Griffiths -- Transport in metals / J.M. Honig -- Transport in semiconductors / J.M. Honig -- Fluctuations of energy and number of particles / C.W. McCombie -- Fluctuations of general classical mechanical variables / C.W. McCombie -- Fluctuations of thermodynamic variables : constant pressure systems, isolated systems / C.W. McCombie -- Time dependence of fluctuations : correlation functions, power spectra, Wiener-Hintchine relations / C.W. McCombie -- Nyquist's theorem and its generalisations / C.W. McCombie -- Onsager relations / C.W. McCombie -- Stochastic methods : master equation and Fokker-Planck equation / I. Oppenheim, K.E. Shuler, G.H. Weiss -- Ergodic theory, H-theorems, recurrence problems / D. ter Haar -- Variational principles and minimum entropy production / S. Simons.

ISBN

0850860237

LCCN

^^^72181327^

OCLC

• 477568
• SCSB-10161017

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