Einstein's theories of relativity piqued public curiosity more
than any other mathematical concepts since the time of Isaac
Newton. Scientists and non-scientists alike struggled, not so much
to grasp as to believe the weird predictions of relativity
theory--shrinking space ships, bending light beams, and the like.
People all over the world watched with fascination as Einstein's
predictions were relentlessly and unequivocally verified by a
hundred experiments and astronomical observations.
In the last decade of the twentieth-century, another of
Einstein's theories has produced results that are every bit as
startling as the space-time contractions of relativity theory. This
book addresses his other great theory, that of heat capacity and
the Bose-Einstein condensate. In doing so, it traces the history of
radiation and heat capacity theory from the mid-19th century to the
present. It describes early attempts to understand heat and light
radiation and proceeds through the theory of the heat capacity of
solids. It arrives at the theory of superconductivity and
superfluidity--the astonishing property of some liquids to crawl
spontaneously up and out of their containers, and the ability of
some gases to cause light to pause and take a moment's rest from
its inexorable flight forward in time. Couched in the terminology
of traditional physical chemistry, this book is accessible to
chemists, engineers, materials scientists, mathematicians,
mathematical biologists, indeed to anyone with a command of
first-year calculus. In course work, it is a collateral text to
third semester or advanced physical chemistry, introductory
statistical mechanics, statistical thermodynamics, or introductory
quantum chemistry. The book connects with mainstream physical
chemistry by treating boson and fermion influences in molecular
spectroscopy, statistical thermodynamics, molecular energetics,
entropy, heat capacities (especially of metals), superconductivity,
and superfluidity.
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