An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases

This book can be described as a student's edition of the author's Dynamical Theory of Gases.

James Jeans (Author)

9781108005609, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

324 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.41 kg

This book can be described as a student's edition of the author's Dynamical Theory of Gases. It is written, however, with the needs of the student of physics and physical chemistry in mind, and those parts of which the interest was mainly mathematical have been discarded. This does not mean that the book contains no serious mathematical discussion; the discussion in particular of the distribution law is quite detailed; but in the main the mathematics is concerned with the discussion of particular phenomena rather than with the discussion of fundamentals.

1. Introduction
2. A preliminary survey
3. Pressure in a gas
4. Collisions and Maxwell's law
5. The free path in a gas
6. Viscosity conduction of heat
7. Diffusion
8. General theory of a gas not in a steady state
9. General statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
10. Calorimetry and molecular structure.

Subject Areas: Atomic & molecular physics [PHM]