Understanding the properties of matter

Michael de podesta

456 pages, parution le 15/05/2002 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

Understanding the Properties of Matter: 2nd Edition is an entertaining and innovative textbook that will fulfil the needs of undergraduate physicists and provides the resources needed by teachers of physics. "The first step to understanding is familiarity." In this book you will be introduced to the properties of matter, will make their acquaintance, and hopefully become lifelong friends. This book takes a unique phenomenological approach. After an overview of basic ideas and a reminder of the importance of measurement, the book considers in turn gases, solids, liquids and phase changes. For each topic, the main focus is on "What happens?". After a preliminary examination of data on the properties of matter, the text raises, and then addresses a series of questions concerning the data. It is only in answering these questions that the theoretical approach to the properties of matter is adopted. This approach motivates students and teachers alike, allowing everyone to rediscover a fascination for the subjects that have excited some of the greatest physicists of our age. There are extensive examples and end of chapter exercises and this new edition has a new chapter composed entirely of extended exercises.

Contents

1. The Quest for an Understanding of Matter
2. Background Theory
3. Measurement
4. Gases: Background Theory
5. Gases: Compsrison with Experiment
6. Solids: Background Theory
7. Solids: Comparison with Experiment
8. Liquids: Background Theory
9. Liquids: Comparison with Experiment
10. Changes of Phase: Background Theory
11. Changes of Phase: Comparison with Experiment
12. Questions

Appendix
1. Maxwellian Speed Distribution of a Gas Appendix
2. Derivation of Speed of Sound Formulae Appendix
3. The Gibbs Free Energy
4. Einstein and Debye theories of heat capacity
5. Dervivation of formula for bulk modulus

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Taylor and Francis Books
Auteur(s)	Michael de podesta
Parution	15/05/2002
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	456
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	968g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415257886
ISBN13	978-0-415-25788-6