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By Plischke M., Bergersen B.

This moment variation of 1 of an important and most sensible promoting textbooks in statistical physics, is a graduate point textual content appropriate for college students in physics, chemistry, and fabrics technological know-how. Highlights of the ebook contain a dialogue of strongly interacting condensed subject platforms with an intensive remedy of suggest box and Landau theories of section transitions. Discussions of the Potts version and the uneven exclusion procedure were further. in addition to conventional techniques to the topic resembling the virial growth and crucial equations, more recent theories resembling perturbation idea and density useful theories are brought. the fashionable thought of part transitions occupies a valuable position during this booklet. A separate, principally rewritten, bankruptcy is dedicated to the renormalization workforce method of severe phenomena, with specified dialogue of the elemental techniques of this crucial strategy and examples of either particular and approximate calculations given. the advance of the fundamental instruments is done in an elevated bankruptcy on machine simulations during which either Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics thoughts are brought.

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To understand how energy and the kinetic worldview got into physics in the first half of the 19th century, we must first grant that scientists in this period had a strong desire to unify their theories of different phenomena and were fascinated by experiments showing the interrelations of diverse forces in nature. The desire for unity may originally have been associated, as has been suggested by Kuhn (1959) and others, with Romantic nature philosophy and its postulate that all phenomena are manifestations of a single underlying force or an antagonism of two opposing forces in an organismic universe.

Whether the matter is fluid, has weight, is composed of discrete particles, etc. are subsidiary problems that can be worked out once the primary issue of substance versus quality has been settled. 16 At the beginning of the 19th century it was widely accepted, in part on Newton's authority, that light is a substance-in particular, a stream of particles. Thomas Young failed to change this situation, either by performing his famous two-slit interference experiment or by quoting statements of Newton in favor of a wave theory.

That was the suggestion of Roger Boscovich (1758), and it has often been adopted by scientists in the last 200 years. Both solutions have disadvantages. In Huygens' theory one has to abandon any definite description of a force acting between two atoms when they collide. In Boscovich's theory the tangible atom is replaced by a system of forces, and it is difficult to see how a mathematical point can have all the properties we attribute to atoms. These difficulties in finding a consistent and plausible model of the atom did not prevent scientists from accepting Newton's theory of gas pressure.

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