Unitext for Physics

A Prelude and Fugue for Engineers

By: Roberto Piazza

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Hardcover | 28 October 2016

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472 Pages

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This book, provides a general introduction to the ideas and methods of statistical mechanics with the principal aim of meeting the needs of Master's students in chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineering. Extensive introductory information is presented on many general physics topics in which students in engineering are inadequately trained, ranging from the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics to basic quantum mechanics, electromagnetic fields in matter, intermolecular forces, and transport phenomena. Since engineers should be able to apply physical concepts, the book also focuses on the practical applications of statistical physics to material science and to cutting-edge technologies, with brief but informative sections on, for example, interfacial properties, disperse systems, nucleation, magnetic materials, superfluidity, and ultralow temperature technologies. The book adopts a graded approach to learning, the opening four basic-level chapters being followed by advanced "starred" sections in which special topics are discussed. Its relatively informal style, including the use of musical metaphors to guide the reader through the text, will aid self-learning.

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"The colloquial style of the entire book, full of wit and humour, shows how one of the most exciting and important parts of physics can be conveyed (played) in the form of a divertimento, without being less rigorous and thorough than needed: a lesson for smart students and young professors training in the difficult art of teaching." (Giorgio Benedek, Il Nuovo Saggiatore, Vol. 35 (5-6), 2019)
"The book is billed as a text that will meet the needs of graduate students in chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineering, and it succeeds in that objective. ... Piazza's book is a welcome addition to the statistical-physics canon. ... Piazza's choice of material and his lucid presentation of abstract, sometimes difficult concepts will make for instructive and enjoyable reading." (Eldred Chimowitz, Physics Today, October, 2017)

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