An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases

Erscheinungsjahr 1982
ISBN: 978-0-521-09232-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Cambridge Science Classics S.

This book can be described as a student's edition of the author's Dynamical Theory of Gases. It is written, however, with the needs of the student of physics and physical chemistry in mind, and those parts of which the interest was mainly mathematical have been discarded. This does not mean that the book contains no serious mathematical discussion; the discussion in particular of the distribution law is quite detailed; but in the main the mathematics is concerned with the discussion of particular phenomena rather than with the discussion of fundamentals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jeans, Sir James

Jeans, James

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Atom- und Molekülphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. A Preliminary Survey; 3. Pressure in a Gas; 4. Collisions and Maxwell's Law; 5. The Free Path in a Gas; 6. Viscosity Conduction of Heat; 7. Diffusion; 8. General Theory of a Gas not in a Steady State; 9. General Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics; 10. Calorimetry and Molecular Structure.