Overview
- Describes the thermodynamics of ensembles of particles
- Explains phase transition in gaseous and liquid systems
- Both a reference book for researchers and a textbook for students
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (SSAOPP, volume 42)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Thermodynamics of Ensembles of Classical Particles
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Front Matter
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Configurational Excitations and Aggregate States of Ensembles of Classical Particles
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Front Matter
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Dynamics of Configurational Excitations in Ensembles of Classical Particles
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Back Matter
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About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
R. Stephen Berry is James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Chemistry Department at The University of Chicago. He has studied phase changes and phase equilibria for twenty years. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., and has been author or coauthor of five books prior to this. He and his coauthor of this book have known each other for over 40 years, from the time both were working on atomic collision processes. They have been collaborating for about 10 years, in their studies of clusters and of phase transitions.
Boris M. Smirnov is a distinguished physicist who worked for many years at the Institute for Ball Lightning, prior to his joining the Institute for High Temperatures in Moscow.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Phase Transitions of Simple Systems
Authors: Stephen Berry, Boris Smirnov
Series Title: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71514-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71513-9Published: 02 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09073-8Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71514-6Published: 24 October 2007
Series ISSN: 1615-5653
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 247
Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations
Topics: Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction, Thermodynamics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, Physical Chemistry