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" Quantum Statistical Mechanics in the Natural Sciences : "
edited by Stephan L. Mintz, Susan M. Widmayer.
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716503
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b536186
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edited by Stephan L. Mintz, Susan M. Widmayer.
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Quantum Statistical Mechanics in the Natural Sciences : : A Volume Dedicated to Lars Onsager on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday\ edited by Stephan L. Mintz, Susan M. Widmayer.
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Boston, MA: Springer US, 1974
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Studies in the Natural Sciences, A Series from the Center for Theoretical Studies, 4.
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(XII, 492 p. 6 illus.).
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1461345324
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: 9781461345329
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Section One Biology --;Life in the Early Days --;The Fluctuating Enzyme --;Diffusion Control in Biochemical Reactions --;Phase Transitions of Phospholipids --;Theory and Density Measurements of the Lipid Bilayer Phase Transition --;Stability of Helical Nucleic Acids --;Thermodynamic Perspectives and the Origin of Life --;Section Two Statistical Mechanics --;High Frequency Dielectric Response in Dipolar Systems --;Exact Derivation of the Onsager Limiting Law --;The Effect of Wall Charge on the Capillary Rise of Electrolytes --;Density of States of Topologically Disordered Amorphous Semiconductors --;Irreversibility --;Surface Specific Heat of Crystals. I --;Zeros of the Grand Partition Function --;Response, Relaxation and Fluctuation --;What is New in the Ising Model --;Critical Exponents Below Tc Via Skeleton Graphs (Ising-Like Case) --;Section Three Quantum Mechanics and Low Temperature Physics --;The Ghost of a Vanished Vortex Ring --;Propagation of Second Sound and Heat Pulses in Solid Helium Crystals --;Low Temperature and Macroscopic Quantization: Tools for Experimental Physicists --;Special Functions in the Computer Era --;Negative Temperatures in Type-II Superconductors --;Superfluidity in Two Dimensions --;List of Participants.
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Onsager, Lars, -- 1903-1976.
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Science (General)
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Statistical mechanics -- Congresses.
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QC174.7E358 1974
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Stephan L Mintz
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Susan M Widmayer
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