An Introduction to the Liquid State: 7 (Oxford Series on Neutron Scattering in Condensed Matter) - Softcover

Egelstaff, P. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198517505 ISBN 13: 9780198517504

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1994

Synopsis

This is a completely revised and rewritten edition of a book originally published 25 years ago. While the general content, layout, and style of this edition follow that of the original, the book now reflects the enormous expansion of theoretical and experimental research that has taken place over the past quarter of a century.

The book is an introductory rather than a specialist work. It aims to cover the simpler and more basic parts of this vast topic, while preserving a balance between different areas. The author breaks the subject down by liquid state topic rather than by class of liquid, so that all classes can fall under each topic. The author takes a simple atomic view of liquids, concentrating on the pair distribution and pair potential functions, illustrating how properties can be calculated from first principles and the results compared with experiment. The experimental techniques used involve scattering both for equilibrium and dynamic measurements, and considerable attention is devoted to this aspect.

The book is aimed at first year graduate students of physics and those who have taken undergraduate courses in mathematics and statistical thermodynamics. This edition also includes sets of exercises for the student.

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'it is a wonderful book written with the view that the materials can be effectively given to an advanced class on that subject. This simplifies greatly the work of the teacher! ... the discussion and derivations presented are explicit enough that a student reading the text on his own would be able to make the mathematical steps without extensive coaching, something which is rare in advanced topics books in general.'F. Guillon, University of Ottawa, Physics in Canada, July 1993, Vol. 49, NO. 4

'it is a wonderful book written with the view that the materials can be effectively given to an advanced class on that subject'F. Guillon, University of Ottawa, Physics in Canada, Vol. 49, No. 4, July 1993

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198517505
• ISBN 13: 9780198517504
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 408