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Zusatztext 'it is a wonderful book written with the view that the materials can be effectively given to an advanced class on that subject'F. Guillon! University of Ottawa! Physics in Canada! Vol. 49! No. 4! July 1993 Klappentext This is a completely revised and rewritten edition of a popular postgraduate physics text originally published 25 years ago. While the general content and style of this edition follow that of the original! the book now reflects the enormous expansion of theoretical and experimental researchthat has taken place over the past quarter of a century. The book provides an excellent introduction to the liquid state. It aims to cover the simpler and more basic parts of this vast topic while preserving a balance between different areas. The author breaks the subject down by liquid state topicrather than by class of liquid! so that all classes can fall under each topic. The text takes a simple atomic view of liquids! concentrating on the pair distribution and pair potential functions! illustrating how properties can be calculated from first principles and the results compared withexperiment. The experimental techniques used involve scattering both for equilibrium and dynamic measurements! and considerable attention is devoted to this aspect. The book is aimed at first year graduate students of physics and those who have taken undergraduate courses in mathematics andstatistical thermodynamics. Many helpful exercises are included in this edition. Zusammenfassung This is a completely revised edition of a book originally published 25 years ago. While the general content, layout, and style of this edition follows that of the original, the second edition reflects the enormous expansion of theoretical and experimental research that has taken place over the past quarter of a century.The book, now available in paperback, is an introductory rather than a specialist work aimed at first year-graduate students of physics and is accessible to those who have taken undergraduate courses in mathematics and statistical thermodynamics. Each chapter ends with a short set of references for further reading, and exercises are provided for the reader.This volume covers the more basic parts of this vast topic, while preserving a balance between different areas. The author breaks the subject down by liquid state topic rather than by class of liquid, so that all classes of liquids fall under each topic. The author takes an atomic or molecular view of liquids, concentrating on the pair distribution and pair potential functions, illustrating how properties can be calculated from first principles and compared with experimental results. The experimental techniques used involve scattering both for equilibrium and dynamic measurements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to 1st edition Preface to 2nd edition General list of symbols 1: General Properties of Liquids 2: Distribution Functions and Their Properties 3: Measurement of Distribution Functions 4: Summary of Interatomic and Intermolecular Interactions 5: The Pair Theory of Liquids - Equilibrium Properties 6: Computer Simulations and Perturbation Theory 7: Discussion of Equilibrium Properties on the Pair Theory 8: Effects Beyond the Classical Pair Theory of Liquids 9: Space and Time Dependent Distribution Functions 10: Properties and Models of the Dynamic Structure 11: Diffusion and single Particle Motion 12: The Velocity Correlation Function 13: Phenomenological Treatments of Transport Coefficients 14: Collective Modes of Motion at Low Frequencies 15: Collective Modes of Motion at High Frequencies 16: Liquid Dynamics on the Microscopic Scale Appendix Exercises Index ...
