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" Statistical Theory of Heat : "
by Wilhelm Brenig.
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BL
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753350
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b573311
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by Wilhelm Brenig.
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Statistical Theory of Heat : : Nonequilibrium Phenomena\ by Wilhelm Brenig.
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Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1989
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(xi, 290 pages 39 illustrations)
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3642746853
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: 9783642746857
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I Correlation Functions and Kinetic Equations --; 1. Introduction --; 2. General Equations of Motion of Statistical Physics --; 3. Small Amplitude Perturbation Theory (Linear Response) --; 4. Brownian Motion (Relaxator)* --; 5. Brownian Motion (Oscillator)* --; 6. Dispersion Relations and Spectral Representations --; 7. Symmetry Properties of Correlation Functions --; 8. Detailed Balance, Fluctuations and Dissipation --; 9. Scattering of Particles and Light** --; 10. Energy Dissipation, Detailed Balance and Passivity --; 11. The High-Frequency Behaviour of Response Functions --; 12. The Low-Frequency Behaviour of Response Functions --; 13. Stochastic Forces, Langevin Equation --; 14. Brownian Motion: Langevin Equation* --; 15. Nonlinear Response Theory --; 16. The Increase of Entropy and Irreversibility --; 17. The Increase of Entropy: A Critical Discussion** --; II Irreversible Thermodynamics --; 18. The Nyquist Formula --; 19. Thermomechanical Effects --; 20. Diffusion and Thermodiffusion --; 21. Thermoelectric Effects --; 22. Chemical Reactions --; 23. Typical Time Evolutions of Simple Chemical Reactions --; 24. Coupled Nonlinear Reactions --; 25. Chemical Fluctuations --; 26. Sticking, Desorption, Condensation and Evaporation --; 27. Nucleation --; 28. The Oscillator with Mechanical and Thermal Attenuation* --; 29. Hydrodynamics --; 30. Hydrodynamic Long-Time Tails --; 31. Matter in Electromagnetic Fields --; 32. Rate Equations (Master Equation, Stosszahlansatz) --; 33. Kinetic Transport Equations --; 34. The Dynamic Conductivity in the Relaxation Time Model --; 35. Zero Sound --; 36. The Fokker-Planck Approximation --; 37. Brownian Motion and Diffusion* --; 38. Fokker-Planck and Langevin Equations --; 39. Transport Equations in the Hydrodynamic Regime --; 40. The Minimum Entropy Production Variational Principle --; III Calculation of Kinetic Coefficients --; 41. Approximation Methods --; 42. Correlation Functions for Single-Particle Problems --; 43. Perturbation Theory for Impurity Conduction --; 44. Electron-Phonon Conduction --; 45. Mode-Coupling Theory for Impurity Conduction --; 46. Electron Localization --; 47. Localization and Quantum Interference* --; 48. Scaling Laws for Dynamic Critical Phenomena --; 49. Applications of Dynamic Scaling Laws --; 50. Mode-Coupling Theory for Dynamic Critical Phenomena --; 51. Broken Symmetry and Low-Frequency Modes** --; 52. Collision Rates --; 53. Many-Body Effects in Collision Rates --; References.
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This book provides an integrated presentation of nonequilibrium statistical physics based on the methods of correlation functions and memory kernels. The relation between this approach and other, earlier methods such as kinetic equations, transport equations and Onsager's approach is discussed in detail. Classical results of kinetic and transport theory are treated thoroughly, together with more recent results on hydrodynamic long time tails, dynamical scaling laws for critical phenomena and electron localization in random potentials. The growing interest in nonlinear phenomena is catered for by several chapters on related problems: a general microscopic nonlinear response theory is presented; phenomenological nonlinear equations are discussed with respect to their relations with microscopic theory and their applications in chemical reactions, hydrodynamics and "chaos"; microscopic nonlinear theory is used to calculate kinetic coefficients of nonlinear phenomenological theories such as transport theory and chemical reactions.
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Physical organic chemistry.
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Physics.
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Thermodynamics.
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QC318.I7B995 1989
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Wilhelm Brenig
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