Ebook: Heat Capacity and Thermal Expansion at Low Temperatures

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 senile. We recognize his wisdom in wanting a monograph which includes the closely linked properties of heat capacity and thermal expansion, to which we have added a little 'cement' in the form of elastic moduli. There seems to be a dearth of practitioners in these areas, particularly among physics postgraduate students, sometimes temporarily alleviated when a new generation of exciting materials are found, be they heavy fermion compounds, high­ temperature superconductors, or fullerenes. And yet the needs of the space industry, telecommunications, energy conservation, astronomy, medical imaging, etc. , place demands for more data and understanding of these properties for all classes of materials - metals, polymers, glasses, ceramics, and mixtures thereof. There have been many useful books, including Specific Heats at Low Tempera­ tures by E. S. Raja Gopal (1966) in this Plenum Cryogenic Monograph Series, but few if any that covered these related topics in one book in a fashion designed to help the cryogenic engineer and cryophysicist. We hope that the introductory chapter will widen the horizons of many without a solid state background but with a general interest in physics and materials.

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This monograph is for the physicist, engineer, material scientist and graduate student concerned with solids (and fluids) at low temperatures.
The authors, respectively a theorist and an experimentalist with many years of cryogenic experience, have collaborated to cover the closely related areas of heat capacity, thermal expansion and elastic stiffness. They include chapters on the fundamental principles, the observed behavior of representative materials - cubic crystals, anisotropic solids, glasses, polymers, magnetic materials, superconductors, composites, etc., measurement techniques and tables of data on technical and reference materials.

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This monograph is for the physicist, engineer, material scientist and graduate student concerned with solids (and fluids) at low temperatures.
The authors, respectively a theorist and an experimentalist with many years of cryogenic experience, have collaborated to cover the closely related areas of heat capacity, thermal expansion and elastic stiffness. They include chapters on the fundamental principles, the observed behavior of representative materials - cubic crystals, anisotropic solids, glasses, polymers, magnetic materials, superconductors, composites, etc., measurement techniques and tables of data on technical and reference materials.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Basic Theory and Techniques....Pages 27-88
Measurement Techniques....Pages 89-127
Fluids....Pages 129-151
Non-Metals....Pages 153-223
Metals....Pages 225-266
Polycrystals, Composites and Aggregates....Pages 267-276
Cryocrystals, Clathrates and Curiosities....Pages 277-294
Conclusion....Pages 295-296
Back Matter....Pages 297-338

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This monograph is for the physicist, engineer, material scientist and graduate student concerned with solids (and fluids) at low temperatures.
The authors, respectively a theorist and an experimentalist with many years of cryogenic experience, have collaborated to cover the closely related areas of heat capacity, thermal expansion and elastic stiffness. They include chapters on the fundamental principles, the observed behavior of representative materials - cubic crystals, anisotropic solids, glasses, polymers, magnetic materials, superconductors, composites, etc., measurement techniques and tables of data on technical and reference materials.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Basic Theory and Techniques....Pages 27-88
Measurement Techniques....Pages 89-127
Fluids....Pages 129-151
Non-Metals....Pages 153-223
Metals....Pages 225-266
Polycrystals, Composites and Aggregates....Pages 267-276
Cryocrystals, Clathrates and Curiosities....Pages 277-294
Conclusion....Pages 295-296
Back Matter....Pages 297-338
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