High-pressure equations of state : theory and applications : Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 25 July-4 August 1989

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High-pressure equations of state : theory and applications : Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 25 July-4 August 1989

edited by S. Eliezer and R.A. Ricci

(Rendiconti della Scuola internazionale di fisica "Enrico Fermi", course 113)

North-Holland , Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1991

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Equazioni di stato ad alta pressione

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At head of title: Italian Physical Society

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Description

Scientists have been working during the last three centuries on the unification of the forces in nature. However, the understanding and the unification of all the basic forces of nature does not necessarily explain the behaviour of a large system of "strongly coupled particles". For example, phase transitions in general and strongly coupled plasmas in particular are described by the equations of state of matter. In particular, the knowledge of pressure, energy and entropy as a function of temperature, density and chemical context is necessary in order to understand the behaviour and the development of a star or any other complex system in local thermodynamic equilibrium. Equations of State are used in chemistry, astrophysics, geophysics, nuclear physics, high energy physics, plasma physics and shock wave studies. This book aims to bring all these fields together through the Equations of State, thus unifying a major part of physics.

Table of Contents

  • Preface. High pressure equation of state - a perspective (S. Eliezer). The Thomas-Fermi and related models (S. Eliezer). Equations of state in chemistry (N.H. March). Equation of state of partially-ionized dense plasmas (F.J. Rogers). Shock waves in condensed media
  • their properties and the equation of state of materials derived from them (R.G. McQueen). Shock compression studies of condensed matter (M. Ross). Compressibility and equation of state (S. Pfalzner and H. Hora). Wide-range equation of state models for matter (A.V. Bushman, V.E. Fortov and I.V. Lomonosov). Statistical mechanics of high pressure equations-of-state and freezing of classical fluids and dense plasmas (J.P. Hansen and G. Chabrier). Onsager-molecule approach to the statistical thermodynamics of polydisperse charged-particle systems (Y. Rosenfeld). Theory of crystallization for quantum liquids (G. Senatore and G. Pastore). Equations of state under very high pressure X-ray methods and alternatives (J.M. Besson). Equation of state and related problems in astrophysics (E. Schatzman). The equation of state of supernova and neutron star matter (W. Hillebrandt). Equations of state in geophysics and in planetary physics (J. Leliwa-Kopystynski). Equations of state for high-temperature plasmas (F. Pegoraro). Equations of state in laser driven inertial confinement fusion (S. Eliezer and H. Hora). The nuclear equation of state (J.A. Maruhn). Equations of state in nuclear, hadronic and quark-gluon matter (R.M. Weiner).

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