1st Edition

Physics of Materials

By Yves Quere Copyright 1998
496 Pages
by CRC Press

496 Pages
by CRC Press

496 Pages
by CRC Press

Few areas of science are as interdisciplinary as materials science. Chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics each play a part within it. The role of physics is to describe the objects, effects and phenomena at different scales (micro-, meso-, and macroscopic) as precisely as possible.  Physics of Materials addresses this description at the elementary level. Based on an... Read more
1. Madelung or Rock Salt 2. Drude or "archaeo-Metal" 3. Sommerfeld or "Good" Metal 4. Some Properties of "Good" Metals 5. Packings: Order or Disorder 6. Bloch and Brillouin or the Electrons in a Crystal 7. Surfaces and Point Defects 8. Diffusion and Precipitation 9. Dislocations and Boundaries 10. Deformation and Fracture 11. Diffraction by a Crystal 12. Bloch's Theorem 13. Boltzmann's Equation, Electrical Conductivity 14. Tight Binding Method 15. Burgers Vector 16. Problermsd with Solutions

Biography

Quere; Yves. Academie des Sciences, France.