The Principles Of Statistical Mechanics

708 Pages·1979·43.73 MB·English

by  Richard Chace Tolman

The Principles of
STATISTICAL
MECHANICS
Richord C.Ttlmon
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THEPRINCIPLESOF
STIT|ISTICAL
MECHANICS

THE PRI}TCIPLESOF
STA|ISTICAL
MECHANICS
by
RICHARDC.TOLMAN
Late Professor of Physical Chemistryand
Mathematical Physics at the California
Institute of Technology
Dover Rrbl ications, Inc.
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This Dover edition, first published in 1979, is an
unabridged and unaltered republication of the work
originally published in 1938 by Oxford University Press.
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