Ian Baker

eBook, PDF

Fifty Materials That Make the World (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

Provides a concise introduction to various materials with broad day-to-day applications

Describes how the uses of certain materials were discovered and their importance in today's world

Examines how advances in materials underlie and enable advances in technology

Covers a wide range of materials including stone, wood, leather, cloth, natural fibers, gold, and numerous alloys

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• ohne Kopierschutz
• Größe: 14.89MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Ian Baker is a Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College. His research interests include mechanical behavior of metallic alloys, magnetic materials, ice and snow, phase transformations, electron microscopy, and x-ray techniques.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319787664
• Artikelnr.: 56813124

Rezensionen

"This fascinating and useful book, aimed at a wide readership, adopts the point of view that human civilization has been materials-based throughout its history. ... Readers with a basic (high school level) understanding of chemistry or physics can easily grasp the material. ... the selection of 50 solid materials is quite thorough; readers will be hard pressed to name solid materials important to human history that were omitted. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels." (J. Lambropoulos, Choice, Vol. 56 (5), January, 2019)