Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: March 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780195014587
Subjects: Physics; Science
First sentence: OUR purpose in this first chapter is to provide the reader with a brief qualitative description of what actually happens near the critical point, and with an appreciation of why the study of these critical phenomena has burgeoned in recent years.