Theoretical Physics (Dover Books on Advanced Science)

Dover Publications, 1962. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Prior owner's name to first page; no other markings noted. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Not from a library. 592 pages, 56 figures. This is the 1962 Dover edition with the corrected English translation first published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, in 1961. A classic of twentieth-century theoretical physics by a renowned Ukranian physicist, this book provides a comprehensive and approachable overview of the principles and concepts that underlie modern physics. With four parts devoted to mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, this book stresses atomic, nuclear, and microscopic matters. Subjects include the quantum theories of radiation, dispersal, and scattering and the application of statistical mechanics to electromagnetic fields and crystalline bodies. Particularly strong in its coverage of statistical physics, the text examines Boltzmann statistics, Bose and Fermi distributions, Gibbs statistics, thermodynamic quantities, thermodynamic properties of ideal gases in Boltzmann statistics, fluctuations, phase equilibrium, weak solutions, chemical equilibria, and surface phenomena. The review of basic methods takes an approach that's as rigorous and systematic as it is practical. Many of the 137 exercises feature complete solutions.…