Table of Contents

PART I: Introduction 1: What are the Critical Phenomena? A Survey of Some Basic Results 2: Useful Thermodynamic Relations for Fluid and Magnetic Systems PART II: Critical-Point Exponents and Rigorous Relations Among Them 3: Critical-Point Exponents 4: Exponent Inequalities PART III: Classical Theories of Cooperative Phenomena 5: The Van Der Waals Theory of Liquid-Gas Phase Transitions 6: The Mean Field Theory of Magnetic Phase Transitions 7: The Pair Correlation Function and the Ornstein-Zernike Theory PART IV: Models of Fluid and Magnetic Phase Transitions 8: Results Provided by Exact Solution of Model Systems 9: Results Obtained from Model Systems by Approximation Methods PART V: Phenomenological Theories of Phase Transitions 10: Landau's Classic Theory of Exponents 11: Scaling Law Hypothesis for Thermodynamic Functions 12: Scaling of the Static Correlation Functions PART VI: Dynamic Aspects of Critical Phenomena 13: Introduction to Dynamic Critical Phenomena in Fluid Systems 14: Measurements of the Dynamic Structure Factor for Fluid Systems 15: Dynamic Scaling Laws and the Mode-Mode Coupling Approximation

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