An introduction to the kinetic theory of gases

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An introduction to the kinetic theory of gases

by Sir James Jeans

(Cambridge library collection, . Mathematical sciences)

Cambridge University Press, 2009, c1940

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Includes index

"This edition first published 1940. This digitally printed version 2009" -- T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB01187418
  • ISBN
    • 9781108005609
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    311 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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