Available in paperback for the first time, this is a complete examination of the molecular origins of surface phenomena. Comprehensive in scope, the book traces the history of ideas in this area and presents a detailed discussion of modern theories and an assessment of their present state. The treatise emphasizes the liquid-gas surface, but includes two authoritative chapters of liquid-liquid surfaces. Now thoroughly revised, this text includes the latest information on important developments that have occurred in recent years. Handy cross referencing makes the volume easily accessible and of particular value to theorists and industrial scientists who need to understand or predict the properties of interfaces in fluid-phase equilibria.

Molecular Theory of Capillarity (International Series of Monographs on Chemistry)

Science & Math

Widom, B.

Rowlinson, J.S.

Chemistry

Oxford University Press

Available in paperback for the first time, this is a complete examination of the molecular origins of surface phenomena. Comprehensive in scope, the book traces the history of ideas in this area and presents a detailed discussion of modern theories and an assessment of their present state. The treatise emphasizes the liquid-gas surface, but includes two authoritative chapters of liquid-liquid surfaces. Now thoroughly revised, this text includes the latest information on important developments that have occurred in recent years. Handy cross referencing makes the volume easily accessible and of particular value to theorists and industrial scientists who need to understand or predict the properties of interfaces in fluid-phase equilibria.

Tracing the history of thought on the molecular origins of surface phenomena, this volume offers a critical and detailed examination and assessment of modern theories. The opening chapters survey the earliest efforts to recapture these phenomena by using crude mechanical models of liquids as well as subsequent quasi-thermodynamic methods. A discussion of statistical mechanics leads to the application of results in mean-field approximation to some tractable but artificial model systems. More realistic models are portrayed both by computer simulation and by approximation to some portrayed both by computer simulation and by approximations of the precise statistical equations. Emphasis throughout the text is consistently placed on the liquid-gas surface, with a focus on liquid-liquid surfaces in the final two chapters. Students, teachers, and professionals will find in this volume a comprehensive account of the field: theorists will encounter novel problems to which to apply the basic principles of thermodynamics, and industrial scientists will deem it an invaluable guide to understanding and predicting the properties of the interfacial region. Its extensive cross-referencing effectively assembles many diverse topics and theoretical approaches, making this book indispensable to all those engaged in research into interfaces in fluid-phase equilibria.

Molecular Theory of Capillarity (Dover Books on Chemistry)

Biological Sciences

Dover Publications

Statistical Mechanics: A Concise Introduction for Chemists

This is an introduction to statistical mechanics, intended to be used either in an undergraduate physical chemistry course or by beginning graduate students with little undergraduate background in the subject. It assumes familiarity with thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, the kinetic theory of gases, quantum mechanics and spectroscopy, at the level at which these subjects are normally treated in undergraduate physical chemistry. Highly illustrated with numerous exercises and worked solutions, it provides a concise, up-to-date treatise of statistical mechanics and is ideally suited to use in one semester courses.

Cambridge University Press

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Molecular Theory of Capillarity (International Series of Monographs on Chemistry)

Molecular Theory of Capillarity (International Series of Monographs on Chemistry)

Molecular Theory of Capillarity (Dover Books on Chemistry)

Statistical Mechanics: A Concise Introduction for Chemists