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Format:
Paperback
352 pp.
18 halftones, 259 line illus, 231 mm x 188 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195113310

Copyright Year:
1999

Imprint: OUP US

Properties of Materials

Mary Anne White

Ideal for a variety of courses in materials science, Properties of Materials offers students a wide-ranging and introductory survey of this exciting field. It uses an atomic and molecular approach to introduce the basic principles of materials science from the perspective of various properties--optical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, and mechanical--highlighting the relationships among the properties. Opening with a general introduction to issues in materials science, the text goes on to discuss various types of matter: metals, semiconductors (intrinsic and extrinsic), insulators, glasses, orientationally disordered crystals, defective solids, liquid crystals, Fullerenes, Langmuir-Blodgett films, colloids, inclusion compounds, and more. The volume incorporates several pedagogical features including extensive further reading suggestions and problems at the end of each chapter, comment sections on applications of materials science, comprehensive biographical notes on major contributors to the field, and a helpful website that updates recent references to the contemporary literature. In addition, the book includes unique tutorials that enable students to apply the principles they have learned in order to work out the physical principles behind such important advances as the photocopy process, photography, fiber optics, heat storage materials, magnetic devices, and more.

Readership : This text is intended for upper-level undergraduate students in materials science.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
1. Materials Science
1.1. History
1.2. More Recent Trends
1.3. Impact on Daily Living
1.4. Future of Materials Science
Further Reading
Part II: Color and Other Optical Properties of Matter
2. Atomic and Molecular Origins of Color
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Atomic Transitions
2.3. Black-Body Radiation
2.4. Vibrational Transitions as a Source of Color
2.5. Crystal Field Colors
2.6. Color Centers (F-Centers)
2.7. Charge Delocalization, Especially Molecular Orbitals
Light of Our Lives: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
3. Color in Metals and Semiconductors
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Metallic Lustre
3.3. Colors of Pure Semiconductors
3.4. Colors of Doped Semiconductors
The Photocopy Process: A Tutorial
The Photographic Process: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
4. Color from Interactions of Light Waves with Bulk Matter
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Refraction
4.3. Interference
4.4. Scattering of Light
4.5. Diffracting Grating
Fiber Optics: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
5. Other Optical Effects
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Optical Activity and Related Effects
5.3. Birefringence
5.4. Circular Dichroism and Optical Rotatory Dispersion
5.5. Nonlinear Optical Effects
Transparency: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
Part III: Thermal Properties of Materials
6. Heat Capacity, Heat Content and Heat Storage
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Equipartition of Energy
6.3. Real Heat Capacities and Heat Content of Real Gas
6.4. Heat Capacities of Solids
6.5. Heat Capacities of Liquids
6.6. Heat Capacities of Glasses
6.7. Phase Stability and Phase Transitions, Including Their Order
6.8. (Cp-Cv): An Exercise in Thermodynamic Manipulations
Heat Storage Materials: A Tutorial
Thermal Analysis: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
7. Thermal Expansion
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Compressibility and Thermal Expansion of Gases
7.3. Thermal Expansion of Solids
Examples of Thermal Expansion: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
8. Thermal Conductivity
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Thermal Conductivity of Gases
8.3. Thermal Conductivities of Solids
8.4. Thermal Conductivities of Metals
Thermal Conductivities of Materials: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
9. Thermodynamic Aspects of Stability
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Pure Gases
9.3. Phase Equilibria in Pure Materials - The Clapeyron Equation
9.4. Phase Diagrams of Pure Materials
9.5. The Phase Rule
9.6. Liquid-Liquid Binary Phase Diagrams
9.7. Liquid-Vapour Binary Phase Diagrams
9.8. Relative Properties of Phase: The Lever Principle
9.9. Liquid-Solid Binary Phase Digrams
9.10. Compound Formation
9.11. Three-Component (Ternary) Phase Diagrams
A Delicious Phase Diagram: A Tutorial
Applications of Supercritical Fluids: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
10. Surface and Interfacial Phenomena
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Surface Energetics
10.3. Surface Investigations
10.4. Surface Tension and Capillarity
10.5. Liquid Films on Surfaces
Nanomaterials: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
11. Other Phases of Matter
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Colloids
11.3. Micelles
11.4. Surfactants
11.5. Inclusion Compounds
Hair Care Products: A Tutorial
Applications of Inclusion Compounds: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
Part IV: Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Matter
12. Electrical Properties
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Metals, Insulators, Semiconductors: Band Theory
12.3. Temperature-Dependence of Electrical Conductivity
12.4. Properties of Extrinsic (Doped) Semiconductors
12.5. Electrical Devices Using Extrinsic Semiconductors
12.6. Dielectrics
12.7. Superconductivity
Thermometry: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
13. Magnetic Properties
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Origins of Magnetics Behaviour
13.3. Magnetic Induction as a Function of Field Strength
13.4. Temperature-Dependence of Magnetization
Magnetic Devices: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
Part V: Mechanical Properties of Materials
14. Mechanical Properties
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Elasticity and Related Properties
14.3. Beyond the Elastic Limit
14.4. Defects and Dislocations
14.5. Crack Propagation
14.6. Adhesion
14.7. Electro-Mechanical Properties: The Piezoelectric Effects
Memory Metals: A Tutorial
Further Reading
Problems
Appendix 1: Fundamental Physical Constants
Appendix 2: Unit Conversions
Appendix 3: The 14 Three-Dimensional Lattice Types
Appendix 4: The Greek Alphabet
Appendix 5: Sources for Lecture Demonstration Materials

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Mary Anne White is at Dalhousie University.

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Special Features

Provides an atomic and molecular perspective to understanding properties of materials.
Extensive further reading suggestions and problems at the end of each chapter.
Extensive bibliographical notes on major contributors to the field.
Includes COMMENTS on applications of materials science throughout the book.
Includes TUTORIALS in which students can apply the principles they've learned.