Preface
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I am grateful to Dr. Kevin Bishop for carrying out at my request the calculations
for and preparations of Figs. 1.4, 1.5, and 7.2 for Lennard–Jones argon and to
Dr. Lee Huntington for preparing Figs. 10.2 and 10.11. I am also grateful to my
colleague, Professor Pierre-Nicholas Roy, for his help and encouragement, as well
as his testing of previous versions of this book in his statistical thermodynamics
course for nanotechnology engineering students. Finally, I am most grateful to my
wife, Janet L. McCourt, for her steadfast encouragement and support throughout the
years during which this book was developed.
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Frederick R. W. McCourt
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I am grateful to Dr. Kevin Bishop for carrying out at my request the calculations
for and preparations of Figs. 1.4, 1.5, and 7.2 for Lennard–Jones argon and to
Dr. Lee Huntington for preparing Figs. 10.2 and 10.11. I am also grateful to my
colleague, Professor Pierre-Nicholas Roy, for his help and encouragement, as well
as his testing of previous versions of this book in his statistical thermodynamics
course for nanotechnology engineering students. Finally, I am most grateful to my
wife, Janet L. McCourt, for her steadfast encouragement and support throughout the
years during which this book was developed.
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Frederick R. W. McCourt