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Electrical Properties of Materials
An informal and highly accessible writing style, a simple treatment of mathematics, and clear guide to applications have made this book a classic text in electrical and electronic engineering. The fundamental ideas relevant to the understanding of the electrical properties of materials are emphasized; in addition, topics are selected in order to explain the operation of devices having applications (or possible future applications) in engineering. The mathematics, kept deliberately to a minimum, is well within the grasp of undergraduate students. This is achieved by choosing the simplest model that can display the essential properties of a phenomenom, and then examining the difference between the ideal and the actual behaviour.
The whole text is designed as an undergraduate course. However most individual sections are self contained and can be used as background reading in graduate courses, and for interested persons who want to explore advances in microelectronics, lasers, nanotechnology, and several other topics that impinge on modern life.
The whole text is designed as an undergraduate course. However most individual sections are self contained and can be used as background reading in graduate courses, and for interested persons who want to explore advances in microelectronics, lasers, nanotechnology, and several other topics that impinge on modern life.
512 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1998
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October 14, 2007
This book is an extraordinarily accessible to electronic materials, but that's not why I love it.
I love it because the footnotes, snide remarks occupying the margins, are hilarious.
One of my favorites:
"According to most historians' definition, an event is important if it affects a large number of people to a considerable extent for a long time. If historians were faithful to this definition they should write a lot about Maxwell and Hertz because by predicting and proving the existence of electromagnetic waves, Maxwell and Hertz had more influence on the life of ordinary people nowadays than any nineteenth-century general, statesman, or philosopher (with the possible exception of Karl Marx)."
(this all refers to the sixth edition)
I love it because the footnotes, snide remarks occupying the margins, are hilarious.
One of my favorites:
"According to most historians' definition, an event is important if it affects a large number of people to a considerable extent for a long time. If historians were faithful to this definition they should write a lot about Maxwell and Hertz because by predicting and proving the existence of electromagnetic waves, Maxwell and Hertz had more influence on the life of ordinary people nowadays than any nineteenth-century general, statesman, or philosopher (with the possible exception of Karl Marx)."
(this all refers to the sixth edition)
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