| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Gases, Liquids and Solids: And Other States of Matter for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"...well-written text in physical chemistry...will reward undergraduate science majors who wish to improve their insight into the nature of matter....Where it excels is in its demand for intellectual maturity, even though the level of mathematics never extends past first-year calculus." M.B. Snyder, Choice
"...would not only be suitable, but extremely valuable to complement the kind of theoretical education, heavy on quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, that we usually give our research-bound students." David L. Goodstein, Foundations of Physics
"...written in a clear and lucid style that makes it easy to read." John de Bruyn, La physique au Canada
"...would not only be suitable, but extremely valuable to complement the kind of theoretical education, heavy on quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, that we usually give our research-bound students." David L. Goodstein, Foundations of Physics
"...written in a clear and lucid style that makes it easy to read." John de Bruyn, La physique au Canada
Product Description
This is now the third edition of a well established and highly successful undergraduate text. The content of the second edition has been reworked and added to where necessary, and completely new material has also been included. There are new sections on amorphous solids and liquid crystals, and completely new chapters on colloids and polymers. Using unsophisticated mathematics and simple models, Professor Tabor leads the reader skilfully and systematically from the basic physics of interatomic and intermolecular forces, temperature, heat and thermodynamics, to a coherent understanding of the bulk properties of gases, liquids and solids. The introductory material on intermolecular forces and on heat and thermodynamics is followed by several chapters dealing with the properties of ideal and real gases, both at an elementary and at a more sophisticated level. The mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of solids are considered next, before an examination of the liquid state. The author continues with chapters on colloids and polymers, and ends with a discussion of the dielectric and magnetic properties of matter in terms of simple atomic models. The abiding theme is that all these macroscopic material properties can be understood as resulting from the competition between thermal energy and intermolecular or interatomic forces. This is a lucid textbook which will continue to provide students of physics and chemistry with a comprehensive and integrated view of the properties of matter in all its many fascinating forms.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
Matter is not a continuum of uniform density, but consists of discrete particles or, if one wishes to be more up to date, of localized regions of very high density separated by regions of almost zero density. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Matter is not a continuum of uniform density, but consists of discrete particles or, if one wishes to be more up to date, of localized regions of very high density separated by regions of almost zero density. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Starting with simple inter-atomic forces between two atoms and progressing through to bulk magnetic properties of solids this book is THE book for undergraduates studying the physics of gases, liquids or solids. The author presents the content clearly and without resorting to unnecessarily complex mathematics, a good thing for most students! As an example of the progressive structure of the book, the treatment of gases progresses from simple models, which students should recognise from earlier study, to the more rigorous models taught in physics degrees. It then continues onto the topic of complex transport properties. All areas are explained in such a way deeming them very understandable. Not only have I been recommending this book to my first year students, at the University of Cambridge, since I started teaching them but I regularly use it as a reference in the course of my own research.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
2 reviews
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Excellent reference for thermodynamics and kinetics
20 Oct 1999
Format:Paperback
Very clear explanations and derivations of subjects such as Boltzmann distributions, critial points, thermal expansion, viscosity, etc. The maths isn't too hard, either!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Review by a undergraduate student of Tabor
31 Jan 1997
Format:Paperback
Tabor examines the forces between atoms, and how their balance adds up to the world as we know it.
He uses math to clarify, which though strict, does not hinder him in keeping the story fascinating.
Bert Hubert
Student of Physics,
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
He uses math to clarify, which though strict, does not hinder him in keeping the story fascinating.
Bert Hubert
Student of Physics,
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Science & Nature > Chemistry
- Books > Science & Nature > Physics > Mechanics
- Books > Science & Nature > Popular Science > Physics
- Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Chemistry
- Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Physics
- Books > Study Books > A, AS level & International Equivalent Qualifications > A & AS Level > Chemistry
- Books > Study Books > A, AS level & International Equivalent Qualifications > A & AS Level > Maths
- Books > Study Books > A, AS level & International Equivalent Qualifications > A & AS Level > Physics
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
