Title: States of Matter; Author: David L. Goodstein; Publisher: Prentice Hall; Book Series: Prentice-Hall Physics Series; Format: Hardcover; Features: Illustrated; Type: Textbook; Genre: Physics, Mathematics & Sciences; Topic: States of matter, Thermodynamics, Statistical mechanics, Solid state physics; Narrative Type: Nonfiction; Publication Year: 1975; Language: English; Original Language: English; Country of Origin: United States; Signed: No; Intended Audience: Adults; Vintage: Yes; Era: 1970s.

Scope and content: Graduate-level physics text based on a year-long course at the California Institute of Technology, introducing thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and applying them to real physical systems. Major sections treat thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of the perfect gas, perfect and slightly degenerate quantum gases, solids and the heat capacity dilemma, lattice vibrations and phonons, crystal structures and reciprocal lattices, liquids and interacting gases, special states such as superfluidity and superconductivity, magnetism, and critical phenomena and phase transitions.

Features and layout: Brown cloth boards with gilt spine and front cover titling, matching author name stamped at the lower front. Interior presents a single-column mathematical text with derivations, equations, graphs, and diagrams integrated into the discussion, along with problem sets, references, and a detailed index. Table of contents outlines chapters on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, perfect gases, solids, liquids and interacting gases, special states, and critical phenomena, with appendices and an index at the rear.

Publication and identifiers: Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, in 1975 as part of the Prentice-Hall Physics Series under consulting editors Francis M. Pipkin and George A. Snow. Library of Congress cataloging lists subject classification QC171.3.G66 and card number 74-34074 and notes that the volume includes bibliographical references and an index. ISBN: 0-13-843557-X; printed in the United States of America.

Included: Listing is for the single pictured brown hardcover volume States of Matter by David L. Goodstein only; no dust jacket, access codes, or additional media are included.

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