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Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics - cover

Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics

Max Planck

Translator Albert P. Wills

Publisher: e-artnow

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'Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics' is the published book of a series of lectures delivered at Columbia University by renowned physicist and Nobel Physics Prize winner Max Planck.  It covers the following areas of theoretical physics: Reversibility and irreversibility, Thermodynamic equilibrium in dilute solutions, Atomistic theory of matter, Equation of state of a monatomic gas, Radiation, electrodynamics theory. Statistical theory, Principle of least work and the Principle of relativity.
Available since: 12/08/2023.
Print length: 94 pages.

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