Intermediate college mechanics: by Dan Edwin Christie. 454 pages, illustrations, 16 × 23 cm. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1952. Price, $7.00

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1952
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 98 KB
• Volume: 254
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(52)90040-9

✦ Synopsis

intermolecular forces; the metanic state; mechanical, chemical, thermal, electrical and magnetic properties of matter.

The material is well organized and is presented in the order of increasing complexity of the type of the physical systems considered.

The associated mathematical techniques are exhibited on the simplest problems relating to a given type and their limitations and possible extensions to more complex problems are carefully discussed.

Speciai topics are relegated to 22 appendices occupying nearly 100 pages of the book. Problems given at the end of each chapter serve as exercises for the reader.

At the end, a critical bibliography of books recommended for collateral reading is given.

This book is well-suited as a text for an introductory course on quantum mechanics for chemists, metallurgists, and workers in related fields, who require a fair understanding of the theory and of its results, but do not aspire to make it the principal object of their studies.