Tracing the history of thought on the molecular origins of surface phenomena, this volume
offers a critical and detailed examination and assessment of modern theories. The opening …

It is shown how certain thermodynamic functions, and also the radial distribution function, can
be expressed in terms of the potential energy distribution in a fluid. A miscellany of results …

A specific form is proposed for the equation of state of a fluid near its critical point. A function
Φ(x, y) is introduced, with x a measure of the temperature and y of the density. Fluids …

The configurations produced by placing spheres one at a time in a volume, subject to no
overlap of the spheres but otherwise placing each at a point chosen at random, differ in a …

The van der Waals, Cahn-Hilliard theory of interfacial tension is reformulated for a fluid in
the neighborhood of its critical point. The reformulated theory becomes equivalent to the …

By the potential-distribution principle of statistical mechanics the canonical average of the
Boltzmannfactor of the interaction potential as measured by a test particle is the ratio of the …

The condition has been formulated and the role of the surface forces at a solid-liquid
interface has been established for the barrierless heterogeneous formation of a droplet on a …

TV is the volume covered by N interpenetrating spheres each of volume Vo and each
centered on one molecule, and where, is an arbitrary positive energy. This continuum model …

The theory of van der Waals and of Cahn and Hilliard, which yields the density or concentration
profile through an interface and the associated interfacial tension, is generalized by …

An argument is presented which indicates that if g is the degree of the critical isotherm, d the
degree of the coexistence curve, and f the power of I T.-T 1-1 with which the isothermal …