The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor (Penguin Science)

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		The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor (Penguin Science)
		The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor (Penguin Science)

Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems. During the 250 years up to the 1920s and 1930s they had been answered largely by seeing how materials behaved in practice. But materials continued to do things that they "ought" not to have done. Only in the last 40 years have these questions begun to be answered by a new approach. Material scientists have started to look more deeply into the make-up of materials. They have found many surprises; above all, perhaps, that how a material behaves depends on how perfectly - or imperfectly - its atoms are arranged. Using both SI and imperial units, Professor Gordon's account of material science is a demonstration of the sometimes curious and entertaining ways in which scientists isolate and solve problems.

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Author James Gordon has that special gift of passionately imparting sound knowledge succintly and with a refreshing sense of British humour. Where was he when I was studying physics? This book is an excellent summary for anyone studying engineering, too. I had already read his other book "Structures - or why things don't fall down" and I would recommend this also, though the contents naturally overlap a little. Two classics - get Amazon to have them both on your shelf.

One of the most readable technical books I've yet read. Accompanied by Gordon's English wit, this book is as entertaining as it is informative.

The true test of how well someone knows their subject is the ability to make it eminently understandable. No higher math involved in this text, just simply stated explanations of material science and how this knowledge supports engineering design.

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This could probably be an undergrad textbook (with the addition of some calculus to make it rigorous), but the relative absence of mathematics except for some very basic algebra makes it comfortable armchair reading, and one learns a lot about engineering and materials science.

This book is part of the Princeton Science Library, the best collection of books on mathematics and science for the intelligent layman. Like other books in that series, it is succinct and clearly written. I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. All of the positive reader reviews are right on.

Because I liked it so much, I purchased Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down also by Professor Gordon. As it turned out, that book covers the same material, but in greater breadth and depth, and with more illustrations. There's much to be said for reading both books, but if you're only going to read one, "Structures" is the one.

The book is a classic, I've come across references to it from respected boat designers and aeronautical engineers among others. Unfortunately the Kindle version seems to be garbled in the early chapters, with possibly missing/swapped text and great difficulty differentiating between figure captions and the body text.

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