Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics

By Kole S.

By John Agren

Chercheurs, enseignants et étudiants en technological know-how des matériaux, laboratoires universitaires et industriels, centres de recherche de Métallurgie.

By Enrico Di Cera, Frederic M. Richards, David S. Eisenberg, Peter S. Kim

This quantity commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the looks in quantity four in 1948 of Dr. Jeffries Wyman's well-known paper during which he "laid down" the principles of linkage thermodynamics. specialists during this region give a contribution articles at the state of the art of this significant box and on new advancements of the unique thought. one of the themes lined during this quantity are electrostatic contributions to molecular unfastened energies in resolution; site-specific research of mutational results in proteins; allosteric transitions of the acetylcholine receptor; and decoding the molecular code of hemoglobin allostery.

By Claudine Hermann

Statistical Physics bridges the houses of a macroscopic process and the microscopic habit of its constituting debris, in a different way most unlikely because of the big value of Avogadro's quantity. a number of platforms of trendy key applied sciences -- as e.g. semiconductors or lasers -- are macroscopic quantum gadgets; in simple terms statistical physics makes it possible for realizing their basics. as a result, this graduate textual content additionally specializes in specific purposes corresponding to the houses of electrons in solids with purposes, and radiation thermodynamics and the greenhouse effect.

By M. Baus, Carlos F. Tejero

It is a textbook which steadily introduces the scholar to the statistical mechanical learn of different stages of topic and to the section transitions among them. all through, merely basic types of either usual and gentle subject are used yet those are studied in complete aspect. the topic is built in a pedagogical demeanour, ranging from the fundamentals, going from the straightforward excellent structures to the interacting platforms, and finishing with the extra sleek themes. The latter contain the renormalisation crew method of severe phenomena, the density practical thought of interfaces, the topological defects of nematic liquid crystals and the kinematic elements of the part transformation technique. This textbook offers the scholar with a whole evaluate, deliberately at an introductory point, of the speculation of part transitions. References comprise feedback for extra particular remedies and 4 appendices provide overviews of the mathematical instruments hired within the textual content.

By B G Sidharth

Particle Physics and excessive strength Physics have stagnated because the early Nineteen Seventies. Now, the underlying precept of reductionism -- so sacred to twentieth-century physics -- is itself being wondered. This ebook examines those tumultuous advancements which are resulting in a paradigm shift and a brand new horizon for Physics.

offering the hot paradigm in fuzzy spacetime, this booklet is predicated on a few a hundred papers released in peer-reviewed journals together with Foundations of Physics, Nuovo Cimento and The foreign magazine of contemporary Physics (A&E), in addition to lately released books, The Chaotic Universe (Nova technology, big apple) and The Universe of Fluctuations (Springer). The paintings had expected adequately upfront epoch-turning observations, for instance, that the Universe is accelerating with a small cosmological consistent pushed by way of darkish power whilst the customary line of pondering was once the complete opposite. equally, the prediction of a minimal thermodynamic residual power within the Universe has additionally been discovered extra lately. extra to a unified description of gravitation and electromagnetism through fluctuations, numerous different beneficial properties are provided in entire contract with experiments, in sharp distinction to the current rules that are neither verifiable nor disprovable.

Contents: the boundaries of Physics; legislations with out legislation; The Universe of Fluctuations; The Thermodynamic Universe; Spacetime types and exams; The beginning of Mass, Spin and interplay; The Enigma of Gravitation; An Adventurer s Miscellany.