TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jeans,James
TI  - The dynamical theory of gases
T2  - Cambridge library collection.Mathematical sciences
SN  - 9780511694370 (ebook)
AV  - QC175 .J43 2009
U1  - 533.7 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Kinetic theory of gases
N1  - Originally published: Cambridge : At the University Press, 1925; Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - Jeans's primary aim with the first edition of his book, originally published in 1904, was to 'develop the theory of gases upon as exact a mathematical basis as possible'. Twenty years later and those theories were being revolutionised by Quantum Theory. In this fourth edition, Jeans does not attempt to avoid the discoveries of this topical science, but rather exposes the many difficulties that classical theory was experiencing, and how those problems disappeared with Quantum Theory. This edition therefore offers a fascinating insight into a field of physics in transition between two great models of physical science
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511694370
ER  -