Klappentext Explains the concepts needed to understand the properties of liquid metals. Zusammenfassung Liquid metals remain of both fundamental and technological interest and the concepts needed to understand their properties are set out in this book! starting from a survey of the basic experimental facts to be explained. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Outline; 2. Pair correlation function and structure factors of ions; 3. Thermodynamics; 4. Electron screening and effective ion-ion interactions; 5. Inter-ionic forces and structural theories; 6. Statistical mechanics of inhomogeneous systems and freezing theory; 7. Electronic and atomic transport; 8. Hydrodynamic limits of correlation functions and neutron inelastic scattering; 9. Critical behaviour; 10. Electronic states, including critical region; 11. Magnetism of normal and especially of expanded liquid metals; 12. Liquid-vapour surface; 13. Binary liquid metal alloys; 14. Two-component theory of pure liquid metals; 15. Shock wave studies; 16. Liquid hydrogen plasmas and constitution of Jupiter; Appendices; References; Index.

Zusammenfassung
Liquid metals remain of both fundamental and technological interest and the concepts needed to understand their properties are set out in this book, starting from a survey of the basic experimental facts to be explained.

Inhalt

Preface; 1. Outline; 2. Pair correlation function and structure factors of ions; 3. Thermodynamics; 4. Electron screening and effective ion-ion interactions; 5. Inter-ionic forces and structural theories; 6. Statistical mechanics of inhomogeneous systems and freezing theory; 7. Electronic and atomic transport; 8. Hydrodynamic limits of correlation functions and neutron inelastic scattering; 9. Critical behaviour; 10. Electronic states, including critical region; 11. Magnetism of normal and especially of expanded liquid metals; 12. Liquid-vapour surface; 13. Binary liquid metal alloys; 14. Two-component theory of pure liquid metals; 15. Shock wave studies; 16. Liquid hydrogen plasmas and constitution of Jupiter; Appendices; References; Index.