States of Matter (Dover Books on Physics) - Softcover

Goodstein, David L.

 
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Synopsis

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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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.

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Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1975
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