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Cohesion : a scientific history of intermolecular forces /
"Why does matter stick together? Why do gases condense to liquids, and liquids freeze to solids? This book provides a detailed historical account of how some of the leading scientists of the past three centuries have tried to answer these questions." "The topic of cohesion and the stu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Newton. Newton's legacy
- Newton's heirs
- On the continent
- Science at a halt
- Laplace. Laplace in 1805
- Capillarity
- Burying Laplacian physics
- Crystals
- Elasticity of plates
- Elasticity of solids
- Van der Waals. 1820-1870
- Clausius and Maxwell
- Van der Waal's thesis
- 1873-1900
- Electrical molecule
- Resolution. Dispersion forces
- Argon
- Water
- Action at a distance
- Solids and liquids.