Smith/Hashemi's Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering , 5/e provides an eminently readable and understandable overview of engineering materials for undergraduate students. This edition... This description may be from another edition of this product.
It is a good book to start material science. The first chapter a good overview and has interesting insight to get the reader interested in material science and engineering. However, I feel in the second chapter it goes too far back into detail about atoms, electron clouds, quantum numbers and things of that sort. Just seems like stuff from a general chemistry book rather than a material science book.
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This text book was purchased for use with an Aerospace Engineering Materials class and was extremely useful, clear text.
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This is an excellent book providing a clear, easy to understand, overview of the basic principles of material science and engineering. Covered are all the essential topics including the chemistry and physics behind the structure of metal, ceramic, polymer, composite and electronic materials. Also included are optical, magnetic and electrical properties of materials with relevance to optical fibers, superconductors, and...
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