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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good text for graduate courses.
This is a well written book covering topics of relevance to materials. Explanations are concise and so are more digestible for graduate students. The author has taken special care to use clear and definitive notation. There are a few errors - in particular the Ellingham diagram is wrong - the temperature scale should be oC, not K. However, there are fewer errors than...
Published on October 20, 1999 by Dr. M. John Matthewson
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Inadequate textbook of an already difficult subject matter
As an undergraduate taking a course in thermodynamics of materials, I found the book to be exceedingly brief and, at times, incomprehensible. To those new to thermodynamics, the book is nearly useless. To make it even worse, the book doesn't have answers to the practice questions to allow students to check their work, and it is inadequate as a reference for simple...
Published on September 1, 1999
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Inadequate textbook of an already difficult subject matter,
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This review is from: Thermodynamics of Materials (Volume 1) (Paperback)
As an undergraduate taking a course in thermodynamics of materials, I found the book to be exceedingly brief and, at times, incomprehensible. To those new to thermodynamics, the book is nearly useless. To make it even worse, the book doesn't have answers to the practice questions to allow students to check their work, and it is inadequate as a reference for simple things such as unit conversions.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good text for graduate courses.,
By Dr. M. John Matthewson "mjohnm" (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Thermodynamics of Materials (Volume 1) (Paperback)
This is a well written book covering topics of relevance to materials. Explanations are concise and so are more digestible for graduate students. The author has taken special care to use clear and definitive notation. There are a few errors - in particular the Ellingham diagram is wrong - the temperature scale should be oC, not K. However, there are fewer errors than many texts I have seen. Each chapter has a good number of nice problems.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best book for thermodynamics but no answers to the numerical questions,
This review is from: Thermodynamics of Materials (Volume 1) (Paperback)
This is a great book for undergraduate (and probably graduate) students. Everything is written in simple terms and complex notations are avoided. It is better to use it as a textbook with one or two other books as reference texts.
The greatest downside is that it does not provide answers to the end-of-chapter problems. So no matter how much you think you are right you can never be too sure. This is a great hindrance in the development of the concepts. This book is written at MIT probably for MIT people but there are few people living outside the MIT campus who would also like to understand the subject. So for those poor schmucks Prof. Ragone should write a solution manual or at least provide us with the answers. Examples are also few and far between. This can be the greatest textbook on thermodynamics if above suggestions are incorporated. |
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Thermodynamics of Materials (Volume 1) by David V. Ragone (Paperback - October 24, 1994)
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