Van Der Waals and Molecular Science

by Yavelov Rowlinson Kipnis, J.S. Rowlinson, A. Ya. Kipnis

The development of molecular physics and physical chemistry cannot be understood without a knowledge of the work of Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals. His doctoral thesis of 1873 was the first theory of liquids and gases in which the essential differences and similarities of these two phases were interpreted in terms of the properties of the constituent molecules. This view contradicted the work of Mach, Ostwald, Duhem and other "energeticists"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198552106
• ISBN13: 9780198552109
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 9.3"