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| - | His lectures cover classical physics. This is a six volume set that covers Mechanics, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Electrodynamics, Optics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics and Partial Differential Equations. The Partial Differential Equations Volume has a section on Greeen's functions.These books were used in conjunction with a 6 semester course Sommerfeld taught The books Are available as *.pdf downloads from Academic Press. | + | His lectures cover classical physics. This is a six volume set that covers Mechanics, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Electrodynamics, Optics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics and Partial Differential Equations. The Partial Differential Equations Volume has a section on Greeen's functions. These books were used in conjunction with a 6 semester course Sommerfeld. taught The books Are available as *.pdf downloads from Academic Press. |
| - | Arnold Sommerfeld died in 1951 and was unable to complete the volume on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. The publisher enlisted the help of a physicist. | + | Arnold Sommerfeld died in 1951 and was unable to complete the volume on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. The publisher enlisted the help of a physicist to complete it. |
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| "Sommerfeld was over 70 years old, and retired after 40 years of teaching, when he committed his lectures to paper. He did it with a sense of double obligation: | "Sommerfeld was over 70 years old, and retired after 40 years of teaching, when he committed his lectures to paper. He did it with a sense of double obligation: | ||
| - To preserve through a crisis (WW II) the achievements that had carried physics to great triumphs. | - To preserve through a crisis (WW II) the achievements that had carried physics to great triumphs. | ||
| - | - To bequeath to a younger generation of physicists the valuable analytic tools that had been shaped on the classical problems. | + | - To bequeath to a younger generation of physicists the valuable analytic tools that had been shaped on the classical problems." |
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