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The conceptual foundations of the statistical approach in mechanics /

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The conceptual foundations of the statistical approach in mechanics /

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by Paul and Tatiana Ehrenfest ; translated by Michael J. Moravcsik.

New York :

Dover Publications,

1990.

1 online resource (xiv, 114 pages).

Dover books on physics and chemistry

"Unabridged republication of the English translation first published by The Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, in 1959"--Title page verso.

Translation of: Begriffliche Grundlagen der statistischen Auffassung in der Mechanik.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-114).

In this concise classic, Paul Ehrenfest - one of the twentieth century's greatest physicists - reformulated the foundations of the statistical approach in mechanics. Originally published in 1912, this classic has lost little of its scientific and didactic value, and is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of physics and historians of science. Part One describes the older formulation of statistico-mechanical investigations (kineto-statistics of the molecule). Part Two takes up the modern formulation of kineto-statistics of the gas model, and Part Three explores W.B. Gibbs's major work, Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics and its coverage of such topics as the problem of axiomatization in kineto-statistics, the introduction of canonical and microcanonical distributions, and the analogy to the observable behavior of thermodynamic systems. The book concludes with the authors' original notes, a series of useful appendixes, and a helpful bibliography.

Conceptual foundations of the statistical approach in mechanics

0486662500

Begriffliche Grundlagen der statistischen Auffassung in der Mechanik.

English

Kinetic theory of gases.

Statistical mechanics.

Gaz, Théorie cinétique des.

Kinetic theory of gases.

Mécanique statistique.

SCIENCE-- Physics-- Mathematical & Computational.

Statistical mechanics.

Ehrenfest, Paul,1880-1933.

Ehrenfest, Tatiana,1876-1964.

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