Gases, Liquids and Solids: And Other States of Matter

by D. Tabor

• ISBN13: 9780521406673
• ISBN10: 0521406676
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-11-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Atoms, molecules and the forces between them

2. Temperature, heat and the laws of thermodynamics

3. Perfect gases - bulk properties and simple theory

4. Further theory of perfect gases

5. Imperfect gases

6. The solid state

7. The elastic properties of solids

8. The strength properties of solids

9. Thermal and electrical properties of solids

10. The liquid state

11. Liquids: their flow properties

12. The colloidal state of matter

13. Some physical properties of polymers

14. Dielectric properties of matter

15. Magnetic properties of matter

Appendix

Index.