Statistical Mechanical Theory of Liquid Surface Tension
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Physics and Chemistry of Liquids
- Vol. 9 (1), 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00319107908084762
Abstract
Two statistical mechanical methods of calculating liquid surface tension are considered. The first is via the virial theorem and the second is based on a variational principle for the free energy. The connection with existing theories is discussed.Keywords
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