rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Statistical Physics
    sub title: A Prelude and Fugue for Engineers
  name:
    name part: Piazza, Roberto.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 453 p. 59 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book, provides a general introduction to the ideas and methods of statistical mechanics with the principal aim of meeting the needs of Master’s students in chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineering. Extensive introductory information is presented on many general physics topics in which students in engineering are inadequately trained, ranging from the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics to basic quantum mechanics, electromagnetic fields in matter, intermolecular forces, and transport phenomena. Since engineers should be able to apply physical concepts, the book also focuses on the practical applications of statistical physics to material science and to cutting-edge technologies, with brief but informative sections on, for example, interfacial properties, disperse systems, nucleation, magnetic materials, superfluidity, and ultralow temperature technologies. The book adopts a graded approach to learning, the opening four basic-level chapters being followed by advanced “starred” sections in which special topics are discussed. Its relatively informal style, including the use of musical metaphors to guide the reader through the text, will aid self-learning. .
  table of contents: 1 Playing by ear -- 2 The stave and the treble clef -- 3 Easy rhythms and melodies -- 4 Fluid chords -- 5 Scales in crescendo -- 6 Indistinguishable harmonies -- A Mathematical notes -- B Statistical entropy -- C The Boltzmann equation -- D Brownian motion and diffusion processes.
  note: by Roberto Piazza.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Chemical engineering
  subject:
    topic: System theory
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Continuum mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Complex Systems
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter Physics
  subject:
    topic: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
  classification: QC174.7-175.36
  classification: 621
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: UNITEXT for Physics
  identifier: 9783319445373
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44537-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 161021
    record change date: 20171223141744.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-44537-3