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INTRODUCTION TO THE THERMODYNAMICS OF MATERIALS, FOURTH EDITION
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Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
Author: David Gaskell
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2003-02-07
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Label: Taylor & Francis
Number Of Pages: 640
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Editorial Review:
The Fourth Edition of this classic textbook is a complete and authoritative introductory text on the thermodynamics of materials. With a new chapter (Chapter 14) and two new appendices providing thermodynamic and thermochemical data, the Fourth Edition includes extensive references to scientific reviews and original articles.
Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials is used universally as an introduction to the application of the thermodynamic method to understanding the behavior of materials systems.
Aimed primarily at third-year undergraduate students of metallurgy, metallurgical engineering, ceramics, or materials science, this book will also be useful to graduate students and working professionals in need of a reference or a refresher course. A solutions manual is available to qualified instructors.
NEW IN THE 4TH EDITION:
- A new chapter covering Phase Diagrams for Binary Systems in Pressure-Temperature-Composition Space
-Two new appendices: Exact Differential Equations and Generation of Auxiliary Functions as Legendre Transformations
- A CD containing thermodynamic properties of 50 commonly used compounds. The data and descriptive material on the CD enables students to make detailed thermodynamic calculations involving materials processing.
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating: 
Hit and miss  2006-11-03
I used this book for my course in Materials Thermodynamics, and I must say that it's got some pretty good material and also some poor parts. In particular Gaskell usually does a good job of explaining his derivations, but there are times when the typographic errors get in the way and you sit there for an hour, until your teacher finally tells you that Gaskell made a mistake.
Another annoyance is that Gaskell's solutions in the back of the book are sometimes wrong, which means that it may be difficult to use a self-teaching book. In addition, Gaskell's solutions to some configurational entropy problems are just completely unconventional and nonsensical from an intuitive standpoint -- my teacher told us to disregard his method entirely.
The text does have some pluses: it has plentiful diagrams, excellent thermodynamic appendicies, and in general does a good job of rigorously explaining every concept. It's definitely not a beginner's book, but Thermodynamics is a complex topic and there are certain assumptions made of the reader in any Thermodynamics textbook.
Hard text  2006-10-23
Thermodynamics is one of those topics covered in multiple branches of science such as physics, chemistry, geology, materials science, chemical engineering, etc... This book approaches the subject from materials science and is meant to serve as the book for a one or two semester course in thermo. First of, it is not meant for beginners to thermo. I used this book in a course taught by one of the best instructors in my department, after having taken two easier courses in thermo. Yet I still found it difficult. Second, the math is advanced enough that one should not take the course without having differential equations. Third, the example problems can get quite difficult real quickly; and not all have solutions. But overall, the text is a good reflection of the subject; difficult and time-consuming to master.
Not a great text 2005-12-13
I used this text in a thermo of materials course after using the Gyftopoulos text for a general thermo course. In comparison, I found the Gaskell text horrible. For a 4th ed, there are a tremendous number of typos and equation errors, the nomenclature is a little odd, and the equations aren't general, they inherently assume P = 1atm etc. I don't recommend this text.
not timely delivered, the condition of the book is not good 2005-09-22
not timely delivered, the condition of the book is not good
Very well focused  2005-09-13
This book is a very good one very well focused on the thermodynamics of materials. I highly recommend it and I use it for the Materials Science Master degree program at University of Juarez
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