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THE intervals at which new editions of this valuable treatise are called for grow shorter, testifying to the continued—in fact, growing—interest of students and investigators in the subject, and to the importance of the service rendered by the author in presenting it so admirably. The second edition, of 1916, was different in important respects from the original work of 1904, the quantum theory having in the interval offered a way of escape from the difficulties surrounding the theorem of equipartition of energy. In the third edition, of 1921, the account of the quantum theory was extended. In the present issue a few recent papers on the kinetic theory are duly remarked on, either in the text or in footnotes, but no important changes are made.
The Dynamical Theory of Gases.
Dr.
J. H.
Jeans
By. Fourth edition. Pp. vii + 444. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925.) 30s. net.
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The Dynamical Theory of Gases . Nature 117, 299 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117299d0
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