Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-418) and index.
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Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Qualitative Description of Liquid Properties; 1.1 Three Phases of Matter: pVT Behaviour of Pure Materials; 1.1.1 Critical isotherm; 1.1.2 Triple point; 1.1.3 Phase diagram of a pure material (e.g. argon); 1.1.4 Phase change from gas to liquid; 1.1.5 A liquid open to the atmosphere; 1.2 Melting and Lindemann's Law; 1.3 Molecular Thermal Movements in the Liquid Phase: Brownian Motion; 1.4 Qualitative Considerations Continued: Flow Properties of Dense Liquids; 1.4.1 Ideal liquids and Bernoulli's equation; 1.4.2 Flow in real liquids: Introduction of viscosity
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1.4.3 Poiseuille's formula: Viscous flow through a tube1.4.4 Turbulence and Reynolds number; 1.5 Rigidity of Liquids; 1.6 Surface Properties; 1.6.1 Surface free energy and surface tension; 1.6.2 Surface energy versus surface free energy; 1.6.3 Contact angle; 1.6.4 Capillarity; 1.6.5 Energy for capillary rise; 1.7 Water and Ice Revisited; Chapter 2 Excluded Volume, Free Volume and Hard Sphere Packing; 2.1 Excluded Volume and Packing Problems; 2.2 Accessible Configuration Space; 2.3 Experiments on Random Packing Models; 2.4 Origins of Method of Molecular Dynamics; 2.5 Free-Volume Approximation
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2.6 Free Volume and Entropically Driven Freezing Transition2.7 Building on Hard Sphere Equation of State: the Model of Longuetâ#x80;#x93;Higgins and Widom; 2.8 Hard-Particle Fluid Equation of State Using Nearest-Neighbour Correlations; 2.9 Free Volume Revisited in Hard Sphere Fluid; 2.9.1 Statistical geometry of high-density fluid; 2.9.2 Chemical potential in terms of statistical geometry; 2.10 Hard Particles in Low Dimensions; 2.10.1 Rods and disks; 2.10.2 Hard ellipses; 2.11 Equation of State of Hard-Body Fluids; 2.12 Hard Sphere Fluid in Narrow Cylindrical Pores
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3.3.3 Temperature fluctuations3.4 Clausiusâ#x80;#x93;Clapeyron Equation and Melting; 3.5 Free Energy from Partition Function; 3.6 Principle of Equipartition of Energy; 3.6.1 Internal energy and other thermodynamic functions of a perfect gas; 3.6.2 Harmonic oscillator revisited; 3.7 Thermodynamic and Other Properties of Hard Sphere Fluid; 3.8 Scaling of Thermodynamic Properties for Inverse-Power Repulsive Potentials; 3.8.1 Consequence for melting transition; Appendix 3.1 Analogues of the Clausiusâ#x80;#x93;Clapeyron Equation for Other Phase Transitions; A3.1.1 A magnetic system
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Chapter 3 Thermodynamics, Equipartition of Energy and Some Scaling Properties3.1 Thermodynamic Functions for a Fluid; 3.1.1 Thermodynamic identity and the first principle of thermodynamics; 3.1.2 Helmholtz free energy and variational principle; 3.1.3 Gibbs free energy; 3.2 Specific Heats and Compressibilities; 3.2.1 Specific heat at constant pressure; 3.2.2 Specific heat properties of liquid metals near freezing; 3.2.3 Compressibilities, both adiabatic and isothermal; 3.3 Fluctuation Phenomena; 3.3.1 Fluctuations in a perfect gas; 3.3.2 Effect of intermolecular forces