Synopses & Reviews
First published in 1957, this classic study has been reissued in a paperback version that includes an additional chapter bringing the material up to date. The author formulates the physical properties of crystals systematically in tensor notation, presenting tensor properties in terms of their common mathematical basis and the thermodynamic relations between them. The mathematical groundwork is laid in a discussion of tensors of the first and second ranks. Tensors of higher ranks and matrix methods are then introduced as natural developments of the theory. A similar pattern is followed in discussing thermodynamic and optical aspects.
Description
1st published in pbk. with corrections and new material, 1985. Bibliography: p. [310]-312.
Table of Contents
Notation
Introduction
Part I: General Principles
1. The Groundwork of Crystal Physics
2. Transformations and Second-Rank Tensors: Further Developments
PART 2. EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES
3. Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic Susceptibility
4. Electric Polarization
5. The Stress Tensor
6. The Strain Tensor and Thermal Expansion
7. Piezoelectricity. Third-rank Tensors
8. Elasticity. Fourth-rank Tensors
9. The Matrix Method
10. Thermodynamics of Equilibrium Properties of Crystals
Part 3. Transport Properties
11. Thermal and Electrical Conductivity
12. Thermoelectricity
Part 4. Crystal Optics
13. Natural and Artificial Double Refraction. Second-Order Effects
14. Optical Activity
Appendixes
Bibliography
Supplementary References and Notes (1985)
Solutions to the Exercises with Notes
Index of Names
Index of Subjects