Phase Transitions in Materials Brent Fultz
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dren with your demanding job?”—a question rarely asked of men, and cautiously asked of women. The interviews left me satisfied that there is no inherent conflict with women being scientists while also having rich family lives. The text is straightforward and analytical, as might be expected from a work authored by a research scientist. As a result, the book reads as a history book with its factual information and life details. The women, therefore, come across as veterans rather than role models. The stories are upbeat and inspirational, with no complaints about the Nobel prizes they should have won
or workplace hazards, such as sexual harassment. The only shortcoming of the book is that Hargittai draws no strong conclusions from the summary of the interviews, leaving the reader craving her perspective on how these women fit into a broader picture of history and science. This book will be of interest to both upcoming and established women in science, their children and families, as well as historians. Reviewer: Karen Swider Lyons researches fuel-cell and battery materials and their integration into naval systems in Alexandria, Va., USA.
the final form of the model. These preparations make it easy to understand the mathematical derivations of the model and the Cahn–Hilliard equation. An introduction to magnetism is included before the discussion of magnetic phase transition, covering most of the major topics in ferromagnetism. These introductions are brief, which is understandable considering the number of topics covered in this book. As a textbook, it is more suitable for upper-level undergraduate or graduate students in physics and materials science given the extent of the prerequisite knowledge in physics and materials science. A selection of problems is posed at the end of each chapter. For graduate students, this can be used as a two-semester textbook, with the first semester covering parts I and II, and the second semester covering some selected topics in parts III and IV. Although the author uses this in a one-quarter graduate-level course at the California Institute of Technology, he indicates that only parts I and II are covered in detail, with selections from parts III and IV. Squeezing most of the topics into one semester would likely be too much of a stretch for most students.
Phase Transitions in Materials Brent Fultz Materials Research Society and Cambridge University Press, 2014 583 pages, $105.00 (e-book $84.00) ISBN 9781107067240
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his book is clear and well written. It covers most of the topics in phase transitions, and explains thermal dynamics and kinetics in materials science and condensed-matter physics. Readers will be exposed to many topics ranging from classical metallurgy to quantum phase transitions. The scope of the book may be a little too broad for some readers, although there is enough depth for advanced researchers. Readers will fully appreciate the typical treatise in phase transitions and the critical phenomena. At the beginning of each section/ chapter, there is a brief recap of
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