Gases, Liquids and Solids: And Other States of Matter

ISBN-13: 9780521406673 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 444 str.

David Tabor; D. Tabor

Opis

This is the third edition of a well-established and highly successful undergraduate text. The content of the second edition has been reworked and added to wherever necessary. There are new sections on amorphous solids and liquid crystals, and completely new chapters on colloids and polymers. Using elementary mathematics and simple models, Professor Tabor leads the reader skillfully and systematically from the basic physics of interatomic and intermolecular forces, temperature, heat and thermodynamics, to a coherent understanding of the bulk properties of gases, liquids, solids, liquid crystals, colloids, and polymers. The abiding theme is that all these macroscopic material properties can be understood as the result of the competition between thermal energy and intermolecular or interatomic forces.

Recenzje

"...written in a clear and lucid style that makes it easy to read." John de Bruyn, La physique au Canada

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Atoms, molecules and the forces between them; 2. Temperature, heat and the laws of thermodynamics; 3. Perfect gases - bulk properties and simple theory; 4. Further theory of perfect gases; 5. Imperfect gases; 6. The solid state; 7. The elastic properties of solids; 8. The strength properties of solids; 9. Thermal and electrical properties of solids; 10. The liquid state; 11. Liquids: their flow properties; 12. The colloidal state of matter; 13. Some physical properties of polymers; 14. Dielectric properties of matter; 15. Magnetic properties of matter; Appendix; Index.