The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor (Princeton Science Library) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691023808 ISBN 13: 9780691023809

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1600

Synopsis

The Description for this book, The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor, will be forthcoming.

About this title

Review

"I was thoroughly charmed and won over by this book which I now recommend to all my colleagues."--Daniel C. Mattis, American Journal of Physics

"Princeton has brought to the public a highly readable treatise on the science of materials that emphasizes the strength of chemical and physical bonds, crystal structure, and cracks. . . . The author admits the necessity of being highly selective in the materials he can discuss so broadly, but he ably presents chemical and physical problems and how they have been solved in an orderly fashion, and he shows that the strength of materials is influenced as much by their environment and loading systems as by their own structures and shapes."--S. W. Dobyns, Science Books and Films

About the Author

J. E. Gordon (1913-1998) was Professor of Materials Technology Emeritus at the University of Reading and is the author of Structures, or Why Things Don't Fall Down. Philip Ball is a freelance science writer and a consultant editor for Nature, and is the author of Designing the Molecular World and Made to Measure (both Princeton).

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1600
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691023808
• ISBN 13: 9780691023809
• Binding: Paperback