Monografiya soderzhit didakticheskiy analiz sostava, struktury i funktsiy sovremennogo uchebnika po molekulyarnoy fizike, ego dostoinstv i ogranicheniy, sposobov integratsii v uchebnyy protsess. Rassmotreny osnovnye voprosy molekulyarno-kineticheskoy teorii veshchestva i termodinamiki. Uchityvayutsya naibolee vazhnye dostizheniya v sovremennoy nauke i tekhnike, udelyaetsya bol"shoe vnimanie fizike razlichnykh prirodnykh yavleniy. Privoditsya bol"shoe kolichestvo illyustratsiy, risunkov, diagramm, grafikov, metodicheskikh i tekhnologicheskikh rekomendatsiy po sozdaniyu i primeneniyu sovremennykh uchebnikov. Podgotovlena na kafedre obshchey fiziki TPU v sootvetstvii s obrazovatel"nym Gosstandartom. Prednaznachena dlya prepodavateley vuzov, kolledzhey, slushateley FPK, magistrov i studentov tekhnicheskikh vuzov.