title: Gas Dynamics, Second Edition
author: James E.A. John
description: A comprehensive examination of the fundamentals of compressible flow and gas dynamics.
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  **LECTURES ON GAS THEORY**
  
  
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  **LECTURES ON GAS THEORY**
  
  
  **Ludwig Boltzmann**
  
  
  Translated by Stephen G. Brush
  
  
  DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
  
  
  NEW YORK
  
  
  
  
  
  _**Copyright**_
  
  
  Copyright © 1964 by The Regents of the University of California.
  
  
  All rights reserve.
  
  
  _**Bibliographical Note**_
  
  
  This Dover edition, first published in 1995, is an unabridged, unaltered
  republication of the English translation originally published by the
  University of California Press, Berkeley, 1964. The original work, in German,
  was published in two parts by J. A. Barth, Leipzig, Germany, 1896 (Part I) and
  1898 (Part II), under the title _Vorlesungen über Gastheorie._
  
  
  The Dover edition is published by special arrangement with the University of
  California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94720.
  
  
  This translation was originally “published with the assistance of a grant from
  the National Science Foundation.”
  
  
  _Library of Congress Catalo