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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009355473

ISBN-139781009355476

eBay Product ID (ePID)24060619296

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Book TitleTheory of Liquids : from Excitations to Thermodynamics

Number of Pages300 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicPhysics / Mathematical & Computational

IllustratorYes

GenreScience

AuthorKostya Trachenko

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Length9.8 in

Item Width6.9 in

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LCCN2023-028307

Reviews'I was searching for a better description of liquids when I encountered Professor Trachenko's work, and immediately recognized its elegance and power. I truly enjoyed reading his book: his lucid explanations and critical insights on Frenkel's work and his objective assessment of the deficiencies of other approaches. This book not only revitalizes Frenkel's theory but elevates it to new heights. Professor Trachenko's book lays the foundations for more advances to come.' Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 'Over the past decade there have been enormous advances in our understanding of liquids and supercritical fluids due to new theoretical proposals, the rediscovery of old theoretical proposals, and new experimental findings. This text provides a single comprehensive and cohesive account of these developments, placing them in the context of our mature understanding of the solid and gas states. There is a focus throughout on how we can understand the properties of real liquids - viscosity, heat capacity etc. - that determine their behaviour in everyday life and in planetary interiors. Reading it has made me appreciate just how urgently such a text was required. It will certainly become a key text in my collection and, I am sure, in the collection of other scientists with an interest in the nature of the basic states of matter.' John Proctor, University of Salford

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal532.5

Table Of Content1. Introduction; 2. Experimental heat capacity; 3. Excitations in solids and gases; 4. Energy and heat capacity of solids; 5. First-principles description of liquids: exponential complexity; 6. Liquid energy and heat capacity from interactions and correlation functions; 7. Frenkel theory and Frenkel book; 8. Collective excitations in liquids post-Frenkel; 9. Molecular dynamics simulations; 10. Liquid energy and heat capacity in the liquid theory based on collective excitations; 11. Quantum liquids: excitations and thermodynamic properties; 12. Sui Generis; 13. Connection between phonons and liquid thermodynamics: a historical survey; 14. The supercritical state; 15. Minimal quantum viscosity from fundamental physical constants; 16. Viscous liquids; 17. A short note on theory; 18. Excitations and thermodynamics in other disordered media: spin waves and spin glass systems; 19. Evolution of excitations in strongly-coupled systems; References; Index.

SynopsisThis book introduces a general theory of liquid thermodynamics and explains how recent developments have finally enabled our understanding of most basic liquid properties such as heat capacity and other characteristics. This is a useful reference for researchers and graduate students in condensed matter physics and chemistry., Of the three basic states of matter, liquid is perhaps the most complex. While its flow properties are described by fluid mechanics, its thermodynamic properties are often neglected, and for many years it was widely believed that a general theory of liquid thermodynamics was unattainable. In recent decades that view has been challenged, as new advances have finally enabled us to understand and describe the thermodynamic properties of liquids. This book explains the recent developments in theory, experiment and modelling that have enabled us to understand the behaviour of excitations in liquids and the impact of this behaviour on heat capacity and other basic properties. Presented in plain language with a focus on real liquids and their experimental properties, this book is a useful reference text for researchers and graduate students in condensed matter physics and chemistry as well as for advanced courses covering the theory of liquids.

LC Classification NumberQC151.7