Heat Capacity and Thermal Expansion at Low Temperatures

Heat Capacity and Thermal Expansion at Low Temperatures by T.H.K. Barron, G.K. White.

The birth of this monograph is partly due to the persistent efforts of the General Editor, Dr. Klaus Timmerhaus, to persuade the authors that they encapsulate their forty or fifty years of struggle with the thermal properties of materials into a book before they either expired or became totally seni...

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Main Authors: Barron, T.H.K (Author), White, G.K (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
Edition:1st ed. 1999.
Series:International Cryogenics Monograph Series,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Condensed matter.
Materials science.
Ceramics.
Glass.
Composites (Materials).
Composite materials.
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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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