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This book is a comprehensive exposition of the thermodynamic properties of the van der Waals fluid, which evolved out of a course on thermodynamics and statistical mechanics at Iowa State University in the US. The main goal of the book is to provide a graphical overview of the many interesting and diverse thermodynamic properties of the van der Waals fluid through plots of these properties versus various independent parameters. The data for these plots are obtained from formulas derived herein, some of which have previously appeared in the literature. Many results not amenable to graphical illustration are also included. This book will be useful to instructors as a teaching resource and to students as a text supplement of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics courses, as well as to others who are interested in the thermodynamics of the seminal van der Waals fluid.

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If you have ever encountered a problem in understanding or analyzing an aspect of the vdW fluid, the solution to your problem is outlined here. Johnston slowly and incrementally explores every feature of the vdW fluid including its relation to the Lennard-Jones potential via a mean field approximation, its free energy and chemical potential, bulk properties, critical point, corresponding states, Maxwell construction, coexistence region, lever rule, and order parameter... The book's production values are high and Johnston has taken great care in its composition. I checked much of its mathematics and many of its internal references and found no problems. Every thermodynamicist who teaches or does research should own a copy of this book. - Don S. Lemons, Bethel College, Kansas (retired)

"""If you have ever encountered a problem in understanding or analyzing an aspect of the vdW fluid, the solution to your problem is outlined here. Johnston slowly and incrementally explores every feature of the vdW fluid including its relation to the Lennard-Jones potential via a mean field approximation, its free energy and chemical potential, bulk properties, critical point, corresponding states, Maxwell construction, coexistence region, lever rule, and order parameter... The book's production values are high and Johnston has taken great care in its composition. I checked much of its mathematics and many of its internal references and found no problems. Every thermodynamicist who teaches or does research should own a copy of this book."" - Don S. Lemons, Bethel College, Kansas (retired)"

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Dr David C Johnston is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physicsand Astronomy of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, USA. He received his BA andPhD degrees in Physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara andthe University of California at San Diego, respectively. Prior to joining Iowa StateUniversity, he carried out research at the Corporate Research Laboratories ofExxon Research and Engineering Company in Annandale, NJ. His research areais experimental solid state physics, with an emphasis on the measurement andtheoretical modeling of the electronic, magnetic, thermal and superconductingproperties of solids. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and aformer Divisional Associate Editor of the journal Physical Review Letters.

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