On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 05:57:46PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: > How does Feynman's approach differ from the "new" approach?
It is difficult to explain briefly. The best I can do is to say that the traditional approach, and Feynman's approach, concentrate on things like reversible heat engines, whereas _Thermal Physics_ starts from considering the quantum states available to a system and develops partition functions and statistics to determine how systems behave. From that description, maybe it sounds non-intuitive, but I think it ends up being fairly intuitive. Also, _Thermal Physics_ gets into a lot of interesting physics and material science. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
