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The collected works of Lars Onsager : with commentary /

This volume contains the collected works of the eminent chemist and physicist Lars Onsager, one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. The volume includes Onsager's previously unpublished PhD thesis, a biography by H.C. Longuet-Higgins and M.E. Fisher, an autobiographical comme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Onsager, Lars, 1903-1976
Otros Autores: Hemmer, P. C. (Per Christian), 1933-, Holden, H. (Helge), 1956-, Kjelstrup, Signe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, ©1996.
Colección:World Scientific series in 20th century physics ; v. 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lars Onsager 1903-1976
  • A biographical memoir / H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins and Michael E. Fisher
  • Irreversible processes. Onsager's reciprocal relations and thermodynamics of irreversible processes
  • The Ising model. The Ising model
  • Path crossings with Lars Onsager
  • Electrolytes. Lars Onsager's contribution to electrolyte theory
  • Electrons in metal. Onsager's papers on electrons in metals
  • Colloids. Impact of particle shape on the physics of colloidal suspensions
  • Dielectrics. The dielectric constant and mean electrostatic energy of molecular fluids
  • Helium II and vortex quantization. Onsager's quantization of circulation in superfluid helium
  • Off-diagonal long-range order and flux quantization. Off-diagonal long-range order and flux quantization
  • Turbulence. Onsager's contribution to turbulence theory: Vortex dynamics and turbulence in ideal flow
  • Ion recombination. Onsager's contribution to reaction-rate theory
  • Fluctuation theory. Onsager and Machlup's work on fluctuations in statistical physics
  • Ice and water. Ice and related topics
  • Biology. Biology
  • Mathieu functions. Lars Onsager's thesis
  • Other topics
  • Onsager discussion remarks in print.