Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521810086 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 342 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sir John Rowlinson is Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry Emeritus in the department of chemistry at the University of Oxford.
"Rowlinson has crowned a distinguished research career by writing a detailed technical history of the field in which he has made so many important contributionsI cannot praise this book enough." William B. Jensen, University of Cincinnati"An intricate and intriguing sagaThe book admirably fulfills its stated aim of serving historians of science and also physicists or physical chemists curious about the roots of modern approaches to intermolecular forcesStudents of molecular science (and their teachers!) would do well to consult Rowlinson's book to see how discussions of topics such as capillarity, surface tension of liquids, elasticity of so
A tale of why we stick together Newton Ooi This book provides the history of scientific thought into why things stick together. The book begins with a review of ancient Greek science, and the concept of atoms - objects too small to be divided. The text then picks up in the Enlightenment when scientists like Newton are pondering the question of how the physical world came about, and using experiments to guide their ideas. The major scientif
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.