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Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces

By J. S. Rowlinson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521810086, 9780521810081
Open Library ID
OL7755233M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1829805 bytes)
Pages
343\343
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Why does matter stick together? Why do gases condense to liquids, and liquids to solids? This book is a detailed historical account of how some of the leading scientists of the past three centuries have tried to answer these questions. Organized into four broad periods of advances in understanding, the first three are associated with Newton, Laplace and van der Waals, while the fourth gives an account of the successful use in the twentieth century of quantum and statistical mechanics to resolve most of the remaining problems.

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