An introduction to the statistical theory of classical simple dense fluids /
An Introduction to the Statistical Theory of Classical Simple Dense Fluids.
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Elsevier Science,
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Publisher Address: | Burlington : |
Publication Dates: | 1967. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080103976 |
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An Introduction to the Statistical Theory of Classical Simple Dense Fluids. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (650 pages) |
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9781483214597 1483214591 |
Index Number: | QC145 |
CLC: | O35 |
Contents: |
Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; PREFACE; Inside Front Cover; Chapter 1: EMPIRICAL CONSIDERATIONS; Publisher Summary; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FLUIDS; 1.3 MEASURED MOLECULAR SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; 1.4 SCATTERING BY A CONTINUOUS MEDIUM; 1.5 THE RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; 1.6 THE MEAN POTENTIAL; 1.7 MOLECULAR MOTION IN LIQUIDS; Chapter 2: MICROSCOPIC REPRESENTATION; Publisher Summary; 2.1 THE INTERPARTICLE FORCE; 2.2 CLASSICAL PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; 2.3 THE LIOUVILLE THEOREM; 2.4 THE VIRIAL THEOREM; 2.5 DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS. 2.6 MICROSCOPIC AVERAGES2.7 REAL FLUIDS AND MIXTURES; Chapter 3: FLUID STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS; Publisher Summary; 3.1 SPECIFIC AND GENERIC DISTRIBUTIONS; 3.2 THE CANONICAL FORM; 3.3 THE ROLE OF THE PARTITION FUNCTION; 3.4 GRAND CANONICAL FORM; 3.5 APPEAL TO THE PAIR DISTRIBUTION; 3.6 FLUCTUATIONS; 3.7 THE VIRIAL EXPANSION; 3.8 CORRESPONDING STATES; Chapter 4: THEORY OF EQUILIBRIUM SHORT-RANGE ORDER:CLOSURE APPROXIMATION; Publisher Summary; 4.1 THE SUPERPOSITION APPROXIMATION; 4.2 DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FOR THE PAIR DISTRIBUTION; 4.3 FORMAL THEORY FOR GASES. 4.4 USE OF THE SUPERPOSITION APPROXIMATIONChapter 5: THEORY OF EQUILIBRIUM SHORT-RANGE ORDER: TOTAL CORRELATION; Publisher Summary; 5.1 THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT CORRELATION; 5.2 TWO EQUATIONS FOR THE PAIR DISTRIBUTION; 5.3 EQUATIONS FROM FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION; 5.4 SOME COMMENTS ON THE VARIOUS PROCEDURES; Chapter 6: SOME NUMERICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE EQUILIBRIUM THEORY; Publisher Summary; 6.1 THE PAIR DISTRIBUTION FOR A MODEL GAS OF SPHERICAL PARTICLES; 6.2 THE VIRIAL COEFFICIENTS FOR A MODEL GAS OF SPHERICAL PARTICLES; 6.3 THE PAIR DISTRIBUTION FOR A MODEL LIQUID OF SPHERICAL PARTICLES. 6.4 THERMODYNAMIC DATA6.5 A TEST OF THE SUPERPOSITION APPROXIMATION; 6.6 SOME CONCLUSIONS; Chapter 7: IRREVERSIBILITY; Publisher Summary; 7.1 NON-EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; 7.2 THE PROBLEM OF THE ENTROPY; 7.3 STATISTICAL PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; 7.4 RECURRENCE OF INITIAL PHASES; 7.5 THEORIES OF RESTRICTED VALIDITY; 7.6 THE COEFFICIENTS OF VISCOSITY AND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; Chapter 8: NON-EQUILIBRIUM GASES; Publisher Summary; 8.1 KINETIC DERIVATION OF THE MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN EQUATION; 8.2 STATISTICAL DERIVATION OF THE MB EQUATION; 8.3 THE MOVEMENT TO EQUILIBRIUM; 8.4 THE STEADY STATE. 8.5 REMARKS ON THE SOLUTION OF THE MAXWELL-BOLTZMANN EQUATION8.6 VISCOSITY AND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; 8.7 FURTHER COMMENTS; Chapter 9: NON-EQUILIBRIUM LIQUIDS; Publisher Summary; 9.1 THE FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION FOR SINGLE PARTICLES; 9.2 FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION FOR PARTICLE PAIRS; 9.3 THE FRICTION CONSTANTS; 9.4 THE SMOLUCHOWSKI EQUATION; 9.5 THE STEADY NON-UNIFORM STATE; 9.6 VISCOSITY AND THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; APPENDIX: REFERENCES AND COMMENTS; INDEX; ERRATA. |