Quantum Statistical Mechanics in the Natural Sciences :
General Material Designation
[Book]
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A Volume Dedicated to Lars Onsager on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Stephan L. Mintz, Susan M. Widmayer.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston, MA
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer US
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1974
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(XII, 492 p. 6 illus.).
SERIES
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Studies in the Natural Sciences, A Series from the Center for Theoretical Studies, 4.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Section One Biology --;Life in the Early Days --;The Fluctuating Enzyme --;Diffusion Control in Biochemical Reactions --;Phase Transitions of Phospholipids --;Theory and Density Measurements of the Lipid Bilayer Phase Transition --;Stability of Helical Nucleic Acids --;Thermodynamic Perspectives and the Origin of Life --;Section Two Statistical Mechanics --;High Frequency Dielectric Response in Dipolar Systems --;Exact Derivation of the Onsager Limiting Law --;The Effect of Wall Charge on the Capillary Rise of Electrolytes --;Density of States of Topologically Disordered Amorphous Semiconductors --;Irreversibility --;Surface Specific Heat of Crystals. I --;Zeros of the Grand Partition Function --;Response, Relaxation and Fluctuation --;What is New in the Ising Model --;Critical Exponents Below Tc Via Skeleton Graphs (Ising-Like Case) --;Section Three Quantum Mechanics and Low Temperature Physics --;The Ghost of a Vanished Vortex Ring --;Propagation of Second Sound and Heat Pulses in Solid Helium Crystals --;Low Temperature and Macroscopic Quantization: Tools for Experimental Physicists --;Special Functions in the Computer Era --;Negative Temperatures in Type-II Superconductors --;Superfluidity in Two Dimensions --;List of Participants.