Brownian Motion: Fluctuations, Dynamics, and Applications (The International Series of Monographs on Physics): 112 - Brossura

Mazo, Robert M.

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ISBN 10: 019955644X ISBN 13: 9780199556441

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2009

Riassunto

Brownian motion - the incessant motion of small particles suspended in a fluid - is an important topic in statistical physics and physical chemistry. This book studies its origin in molecular scale fluctuations, its description in terms of random process theory and also in terms of statistical mechanics. A number of new applications of these descriptions to physical and chemical processes, as well as statistical mechanical derivations and the mathematical background are discussed in detail. Graduate students, lecturers, and researchers in statistical physics and physical chemistry will find this an interesting and useful reference work.

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

• 1: Historical background
• 2: Probability theory
• 3: Stochastic processes
• 4: Einstein-Smoluchowski Theory
• 5: Stochastic differential equations and integrals
• 6: Functional integrals
• 7: Some important special cases
• 8: The Smoluchowski Equation
• 9: Random walk
• 10: Statistical mechanics
• 11: Stochastic equations from a statistical mechanical viewpoint
• 12: Two exactly treatable models
• 13: Brownian Motion and noise
• 14: Diffusion phenomena
• 15: Rotational diffusion
• 16: Polymer solutions
• 17: Interacting Brownian Particles
• 18: Dynamics, fractals, and chaos
• A: The applicability of Stokes Law
• B: Functional calculus
• C: An operator identity
• D: Euler Angles
• E: The Oseen Tensor
• F: Mutual- and self-diffusion

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 019955644X
• ISBN 13: 9780199556441
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302