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This monograph is for the physicist, engineer, material scientist and graduate student concerned with solids (and fluids) at low temperatures. The authors, respectively a theorist and an experimentalist with many years of cryogenic experience, have collaborated to cover the closely related areas of heat capacity, thermal expansion and elastic stiffness. They include chapters on the fundamental principles and the observed behaviour of representative materials, such as cubic crystals, anisotropic solids, glasses, polymers, magnetic materials, superconductors, and composites. It also features coverage of measurement techniques and tables of data on technical and reference materials.

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Author:   T.H.K. Barron ,  G.K. White
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.490kg
ISBN:  

9780306461989

ISBN 10:   0306461986
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   30 June 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 1.1. Thermodynamic Properties at Low Temperatures.- 1.2. Implications for Design of Equipment.- 1.3. Useful Theoretical Concepts.- 1.4. Plan of This Book.- 2. Basic Theory and Techniques.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Thermodynamics.- 2.3. Statistical Mechanics.- 2.4. Bonding and Interatomic Potentials.- 2.5. Some Model Systems.- 2.6. Lattice Vibrations.- 2.7. Approximate Equations of State.- 2.8. Anisotropic Strain and Stress: Elasticity.- 2.9. Calculation of , and from Elastic Data.- 2.10. Internal Strain.- 3. Measurement Techniques.- 3.1. General Principles.- 3.2. Heat Capacity … by S. J. Collocott.- 3.3. Thermal Expansion.- 3.4. Elastic Moduli.- 4. Fluids.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. Gases.- 4.3. Liquids and Dense Gases.- 4.4. Quantum Fluids; Liquid Helium.- 5. Non-Metals.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Rare Gas Solids.- 5.3. Rocksalt Structure.- 5.4. Fluorite Structure.- 5.5. Tetrahedrally Bonded Crystals.- 5.6. Useful Oxides: ?-Al203, MgO, ?-Si02, Ti02, Th02, Zr02(stab.).- 5.7. Glasses and Glass Ceramics.- 5.8. Highly Anisotropic Crystals.- 5.9. Polymers.- 5.10. High Tc Superconductors.- 5.11. Non-Metallic Magnetic Crystals.- 5.12. Mixed Systems, Dipoles etc..- 6. Metals.- 6.1. Introduction.- 6.2. Cubic Metals.- 6.3. Non-Cubic Metals.- 6.4. Magnetic Metals.- 6.5. Type I and Type II Superconductors.- 6.6. Heavy Electron Metals.- 7. Polycrystals, Composites and Aggregates.- 7.1. Introduction.- 7.2. Theory.- 7.3. Experiment.- 8. Cryocrystals, Clathrates and Curiosities.- 8.1. Cryocrystals.- 8.2. Other Rotationally Disordered Crystals.- 8.3. Clathrates.- 8.4. Curiosities.- 9. Conclusion.- Appendix A. Axes and Unit Cells in Crystals.- Appendix B. Manipulating Thermodynamic Expressions.- Appendix C. Tables.- Appendix D. Commonly Used Symbols.- References.

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