Abstract
THIS translation, which is taken from Prof. Bloch's work, dated 1921, should meet with a welcome from English readers. The work contains a large amount of information on subjects which commonly find no place in the average text-book. Recent investigations have made the kinetic theory of fluids one of the most vital branches of theoretical physics. Experimental progress has gone hand in hand with the development of theory. There are interesting chapters on statistical mechanics, the theory of quanta, and the Brownian movement and fluctuations. At first sight the width of spectrum lines scarcely seems related to the subject of the book, but the author shows clearly how the width depends on the collisions of the molecules and on their thermal motions. The translator, who has done his work in a very satisfactory manner, has prepared a more complete bibliography of recent papers dealing with the subjects discussed in the various chapters of the book.
The Kinetic Theory of Gases.
Prof.
Eugène
Bloch
By. Translated by P. A. Smith. Pp. xiv + 178. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1924.) 7s. net.
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The Kinetic Theory of Gases . Nature 115, 189 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115189c0
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