| Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Contributor(s): Boltzmann, Ludwig (Author), Hasen Hrl, Friedrich (Editor), Hasenohrl, Friedrich (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108052800 ISBN-13: 9781108052801 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $71.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: German Published: August 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - General |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences |
| Physical Information: 1.35" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.68 lbs) 608 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Austrian physicist Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844-1906), educated at the University of Vienna, was appointed professor of mathematical physics at the University of Graz in 1869 at the age of only twenty-five. Boltzmann did important work in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics; for instance, he contributed to the kinetic theory concerned with molecular speeds in gas. Boltzmann also promoted atomic theory, which at the time was still highly controversial. He was a member of the Imperial Austrian Academy of Sciences from 1885 and became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888. This three-volume work, prepared in 1909 by the physicist Fritz Hasen hrl, one of Boltzmann's students, comprises all his academic publications from 1865 to 1905. Volume 2 contains work from 1875 to 1881 on the thermal conduction of gases, the mechanic theory of heat and its problems, and the friction of gas. |