Introduction to Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Matter

ANATOLY I. BURSHTEIN is Professor of Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Formerly a professor of physics at Novosibirsk State University in the USSR, he also founded, then headed for two decades, the Theoretical Chemistry Lab in Siberia for the USSR's Academy of Science. Professor Burshtein has published over 200 articles and eight books, most recently Spectroscopy of Molecular Rotation in Gases and Liquids (1994). In the mid-1960s, Professor Burshtein became politically active as founder and president of Under Integral, a young scientists' club that advocated scientific and cultural freedom of expression. The group was disbanded by Soviet officials after it sponsored a festival of underground music, and Professor Burshtein was subjected to travel restrictions and limited scientific contacts. It was while he was under these restrictions that he founded the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory.

Gases. Radiation. Crystals. Liquids. Thermodynamics. Bibliography. Index.