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A CONCISE COURSE ON THE THEORY OF CLASSICAL LIQ...

This short primer offers non-specialist readers a concise  yetcomprehensive introduction to the
field of classical fluids - providing bothfundamental information and a number of selected
topics to bridge the gapbetween the basics and ongoing research. In particular  hard-sphere
systems represent a favorite playground instatistical mechanics  both in and out of equilibrium
as they represent thesimplest models of many-body systems of interacting particles  and at
highertemperature and densities they have proven to be very useful as referencesystems for real
fluids. Moreover  their usefulness in the realm of softcondensed matter has become increasingly
recognized - for instance  theeffective interaction among (sterically stabilized) colloidal
particles can betuned to almost perfectly match the hard-sphere model. These lecture notes
present a brief  self-contained overview ofequilibrium statistical mechanics of classical
fluids  with specialapplications to both the structural and thermodynamic properties of
systemsmade of particles interacting via the hard-sphere potential or closely relatedmodel
potentials. In particular it addresses the exact statistical-mechanicalproperties of
one-dimensional systems  the issue of thermodynamic(in)consistency among different routes in
the context of several approximatetheories  and the construction of analytical or
semi-analytical approximationsfor the structural properties. Written pedagogically at the
graduate level  with many figures  tables photographs  and guided end-of-chapter exercises 
this introductory textbenefits students and newcomers to the field alike.

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