Название:Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics.Second edition
Автор: Frank C. Andrews
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Год: 1975
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 282
Размер: 11,3 MB
Язык: English

Problem confronted by statistical mechanics is the rationalization of the macroscopic behavior of matter through the knowledge that the matter consists of discrete particles.
Statistical mechanics is by no means a finished subject. Many of the derivations in this book are new and contain the seed of potentially exciting research efforts. As the last chapter makes clear, some of the most vii viii Preface basic questions, such as why are there liquids and what are their properties, cannot now be answered satisfactorily by statistical mechanics. We must all make our own order out of the welter of ideas and facts we find.