Thermodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Quantum Mechanics

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Sidney Cahn
New York
Gerald Mahan
Oak Ridge
Boris Nadgorny
Washington, D.C.

magazinessuch as Kvant. A few of the problems were compiled by the authors
and have never been published before.
We were happy to hear many encouraging comments about Part 1 from
our colleagues, and we are grateful to everybody who took their time to re-
view the book. We wish to thank many people who contributed some of the
problems to Part 2, or discussed solutionswith us, in particular Dmitri Averin
(Stony Brook), Michael Bershadsky (Harvard), Alexander Korotkov(Stony
Brook), Henry Silsbee (StonyBrook), and Alexei Stuchebrukhov (UC Davis).
We thank Kirk McDonald(Princeton) and Liang Chen (British Columbia)
for their helpful comments to some problems in Part 1; we hope to include
them in the second edition of Part 1, coming out next year. We are indebted
to Max Dresden for writing the Foreword, to Tilo Wettig (Münich) who read
most, of the manuscript, and to Vladimir Gitt and Yair Minsky who drew the
humorous pictures.


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