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STUDENTS of the generation which fared dryly on such treatises as Watson's would scarcely recognise their subject in the new edition of Prof. Loeb's treatise. The classical developments are all there for the nourishment of the student of the elements, but due regard has been taken of the astonishing changes which we associate with the name of quantum mechanics. At least a third of the original text has been rewritten, and the sections which deal with specific heats, with equations of state, with dielectric constants and with magnetism, have suffered radical changes.
The Kinetic Theory of Gases: being a Text and Reference Book whose Purpose is to Combine the Classical Deductions with Recent Experimental Advances in a Convenient Form for Student and Investigator.
By Prof. Leonard B. Loeb. Second edition. Pp. xx + 687. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1934.) 36s. net.
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F., A. [Short Notices]. Nature 135, 390 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135390b0
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