Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

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First published in 1971, this highly popular text is devoted to the interdisciplinary area of critical phenomena, with an emphasis on liquid-gas and ferromagnetic transitions. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and solid state physics, as well as researchers in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and materials science, will welcome this paperback edition of Stanley's acclaimed text.
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Table of Contents

PART I: Introduction
1. What are the Critical Phenomena? A Survey of Some Basic Results
2. Useful Thermodynamic Relations for Fluid and Magnetic Systems
PART II: Critical-Point Exponents and Rigorous Relations Among Them
3. Critical-Point Exponents
4. Exponent Inequalities
PART III: Classical Theories of Cooperative Phenomena
5. The Van Der Waals Theory of Liquid-Gas Phase Transitions
6. The Mean Field Theory of Magnetic Phase Transitions
7. The Pair Correlation Function and the Ornstein-Zernike Theory
PART IV: Models of Fluid and Magnetic Phase Transitions
8. Results Provided by Exact Solution of Model Systems
9. Results Obtained from Model Systems by Approximation Methods
PART V: Phenomenological Theories of Phase Transitions
10. Landau's Classic Theory of Exponents
11. Scaling Law Hypothesis for Thermodynamic Functions
12. Scaling of the Static Correlation Functions
PART VI: Dynamic Aspects of Critical Phenomena
13. Introduction to Dynamic Critical Phenomena in Fluid Systems
14. Measurements of the Dynamic Structure Factor for Fluid Systems
15. Dynamic Scaling Laws and the Mode-Mode Coupling Approximation

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