| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 181 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
History -- Background -- Experimental background -- The Planck equation -- The Einstein's equation -- The Debye equation -- Quantum statistics -- Consequences of the Fermi-Dirac distribution -- Consequences of the Bose-Einstein distribution |
| Summary |
"Einstein's theories of relativity piqued public curiosity more than any other mathematical concepts since the time of Isaac Newton." |
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"In the last decade of the twentieth-century, another of Einstein's theories has produced results that are every bit as startling as the space-time contractions of relativity theory. This book addresses his other great theory, that of heat capacity and the Bose-Einstein condensate. In doing so, it traces the history of radiation and heat capacity theory from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It describes early attempts to understand heat and light radiation and proceeds through the theory of the heat capacity of solids |
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It arrives at the theory of superconductivity and superfluidity - the astonishing property of some liquids to crawl spontaneously up and out of their containers, and the ability of some gases to cause light to pause and take a moment's rest from its inexorable flight forward in time." "Couched in the terminology of traditional physical chemistry, this book is accessible to chemists, engineers, materials scientists, mathematicians, mathematical biologists - indeed to anyone with a command of first year calculus."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 177) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Blackbody radiation.
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Specific heat.
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Bose-Einstein condensation.
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specific heat.
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SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Physical & Theoretical.
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Blackbody radiation.
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Bose-Einstein condensation.
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Bose-Einstein-Kondensation
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Specific heat.
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Plancksches Strahlungsgesetz
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Spezifische Wärmekapazität
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| Genre/Form |
Geschichte.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021698783 |
| ISBN |
9780691216409 |
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0691216401 |
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