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Basic Physics of Gases and Plasmas

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Matter appears on our planet, in the solar system and in the rest of Universe in rather different forms.

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  1. 1.

    In English: “The kinetic theory of thermal equilibrium and the second law of thermodynamics.”

  2. 2.

    In English: “On a heuristic point of view concerning the production and transformation of light.”

  3. 3.

    In English: “On the theory of light production and light absorption.”

  4. 4.

    In English: “Above all, he was the first who has demonstrated the importance of the quantum hypothesis for the motion of atoms and molecules, by deriving a formula for the specific heat of solid bodies from this hypothesis.”

  5. 5.

    In English: “Planck’s Theory of Radiation and the Theory of Specific Heat.

  6. 6.

    In English: “Emission and absorption of radiation in quantum theory.”

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    Thorsten Pöschel

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Ebeling, W., Pöschel, T. (2019). Basic Physics of Gases and Plasmas. In: Lectures on Quantum Statistics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 953. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05734-3_1

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