Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

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An innovative discussion of building empirical models and the fitting of surfaces to data. Introduces the general philosophy of response surface methodology, and details least squares for response surface work, factorial designs at two levels, fitting second-order models, adequacy of estimation and the use of transformation, occurrence and elucidation of ridge systems, and more. Some results are presented for the first time. Includes real-life exercises, nearly all with solutions.

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An invaluable resource.......2001-05-31

This text give a top to bottom account of model building via RSM. If you have a question, consult this book.

great practical text for applied statisticians.......2000-08-10

George Box and Norman Draper have written an outstanding text on model building and response surface methods. This is an excellent companion to Box's text with Stu Hunter and William Hunter on experimental designs "Statistics for Experimenters". Another excellent, more recent and detailed account of response surface methods can be found in the book by Montgomery and Myers.

Excellent book.......1999-01-14

I do a lot of experimental work for my research and this book is definetely a good investment. I rate it amongst the best in the subject

Consumer Testing and Evaluation of Personal Care Products (Cosmetic Science and Technology Series)

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Consumer Testing and Evaluation of Personal Care Products (Cosmetic Science and Technology Series)
Howard R. Moskowitz
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ASIN: 0824793676

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This work details the consumer-guided evaluation of personal care products, outlining all the steps used in consumer testing to steer the creation of new commodities, from concept evolution and formula optimizing to final selection and positioning in the marketplace. The book shows how to find and create personal care products for consumers with defined needs, offering practical advice to the novice researcher.

Biogeochemistry : An Analysis of Global Change

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Biogeochemistry
Solid science
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An Overview of a Complex Subject

Biogeochemistry : An Analysis of Global Change
W.H. Schlesinger
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ASIN: 012625155X

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For the past 4 billion years, the chemistry of the Earth's surface, where all life exists, has changed remarkably. Historically, these changes have occurred slowly enough to allow life to adapt and evolve. In more recent times, the chemistry of the Earth is being altered at a staggering rate, fueled by industrialization and an ever-growing human population. Human activities, from the rapid consumption of resources to the destruction of the rainforests and the expansion of smog-covered cities, are all leading to rapid changes in the basic chemistry of the Earth.
The Second Edition of Biogeochemistry considers the effects of life on the Earth's chemistry on a global level. This expansive text employs current technology to help students extrapolate small-scale examples to the global level, and also discusses the instrumentation being used by NASA and its role in studies of global change. With the Earth's changing chemistry as the focus, this text pulls together the many disparate fields that are encompassed by the broad reach of biogeochemistry. With extensive cross-referencing of chapters, figures, and tables, and an interdisciplinary coverage of the topic at hand, this text will provide an excellent framework for courses examining global change and environmental chemistry, and will also be a useful self-study guide.

* Emphasizes the effects of life on the basic chemistry of the atmosphere, the soils, and seawaters of the Earth
* Calculates and compares the effects of industrial emissions, land clearing, agriculture, and rising population on Earths chemistry
* Synthesizes the global cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur, and suggests the best current budgets for atmospheric gases such as ammonia, nitrous oxide, dimethyl sulfide, and carbonyl sulfide
* Includes an extensive review and up-to-date synthesis of the current literature on the Earths biogeochemistry

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Biogeochemistry .......2007-10-06

This book, while slightly dated now, as much science has been done since it was published is still very thorough on the subject.

Solid science.......2007-03-15

I bought this book to prepare for my comprehensive exam. Book consists of two parts: first part describes the generalities of physical/chemical/biological properties of atmosphere, soils, oceans; it also contains the description of the specifics of each cycle (main biogeochemical elements) in all those environment. The second part describes the cycles on the global scale, with up-to-date references to today`s situation on carbon dioxide concentration and prospects on global climate change. Very good material andvery good explanation.

Good Overview of the Subject.......2005-08-24

I actually took Biogeochemistry from Dr. Schlesinger last fall and I do feel that the book is a good survey of alot of geochemical cycles and is presented at an undergraduate level.
However, some of the information, particularly about methane, was severely broken up throughout the text to the point where it was difficult to put together complete chemical cycles of some elements..
Nevertheless, it gives the reader the broad brush strokes necessary to get up to speed, particularly if you do not have a strong science background. For those who are very familiar to the sciences, you can get much more complete information from review papers than is presented here.

Such a good textbook.......2005-07-12

I had to buy this for a Biogeochemical Cycles class. The book is great! It's actual readable, which I was never expecting. It's interesting and understandable. The first reviewer is right that it doesn't get too complex, but references out the more difficult parts. I appreciated not having to read the way-too-hard stuff on my first introduction to this subject.

An Overview of a Complex Subject.......2000-03-25

Biogeochemistry starts with a grand overview, including the formation of the elements, solar system & planets, and then progressively narrows the focus into specifics. As such by the time you get to a chapter on, say, the global carbon cycle, you already have a pretty good idea of where it fits in the big picture. Part I (Processes & Reactions) contains 9 chapters (Introduction, Origin, the Atmosphere, the Lithosphere, Biosphere: Terrstrial Carbon Cycle, Biosphere: Biogeochemical Cycling on Land, Biogeochemistry of Freshwater, Rivers & Estuaries, & the Oceans), which do a balanced job of covering the biological & geological aspects (too many books focus on one or the other). Part II (Global Cycles) has 5 chapters (Water, Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorous, Sulfur, & a final chapter on perspectives) that provide more of the details in these specalized catagories. Suitable for the advanced undergaduate or very interested bystandard, there's little detailed math (a weakness for me, but maybe not for you) but the chemistry is well summarized (and the biochemistry made simple & understandable), and the tables & graphs are clean and very useful. Perhaps more importantly for a "textbook", the style is readable - Schlesinger keeps the essentials, but does not bury the reader in them. While it might not provide all you need at a high level, the references scattered throughout as well as the recommended readings make this a great starting point for the subject, and a handy reference book for the subject as a whole.

Group Sequential Methods: Applications to Clinical Trials (Chapman & Hall/Crc Interdisciplinary Statistics Series)

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clear coverage for practicing biostatisticians

Group Sequential Methods: Applications to Clinical Trials (Chapman & Hall/Crc Interdisciplinary Statistics Series)
Christopher Jennison , and Bruce W. Turnbull
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ASIN: 0849303168

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Group sequential methods answer the needs of clinical trial monitoring committees who must assess the data available at an interim analysis. These interim results may provide grounds for terminating the study-effectively reducing costs-or may benefit the general patient population by allowing early dissemination of its findings. Group sequential methods provide a means to balance the ethical and financial advantages of stopping a study early against the risk of an incorrect conclusion. Group Sequential Methods with Applications to Clinical Trials describes group sequential stopping rules designed to reduce average study length and control Type I and II error probabilities. The authors present one-sided and two-sided tests, introduce several families of group sequential tests, and explain how to choose the most appropriate test and interim analysis schedule. Their topics include placebo-controlled randomized trials, bio-equivalence testing, crossover and longitudinal studies, and linear and generalized linear models. Research in group sequential analysis has progressed rapidly over the past 20 years. Group Sequential Methods with Applications to Clinical Trials surveys and extends current methods for planning and conducting interim analyses. It provides straightforward descriptions of group sequential hypothesis tests in a form suited for direct application to a wide variety of clinical trials. Medical statisticians engaged in any investigations planned with interim analyses will find this book a useful and important tool.

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clear coverage for practicing biostatisticians.......2000-06-28

Advances in the theory of repeated significance testing in the 1980s and 1990s has made sequential methods practical by identifying stopping rules for data collected sequentially but in groups. This material is now used to plan interim analyses and both safety and efficacy group sequential trials for clinical trials. This text provides for the first time thorough coverage of these advances with suitable references to the literature.

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Applied Mathematics: Body & Soul is a mathematics education reform project developed at Chalmers University of Technology and includes a series of volumes and software. The program is motivated by the computer revolution opening new possibilitites of computational mathematical modeling in mathematics, science and engineering. It consists of a synthesis of Mathematical Analysis (Soul), Numerical Computation (Body) and Application. Volumes I-III present a modern version of Calculus and Linear Algebra, including constructive/numerical techniques and applications intended for undergraduate programs in engineering and science. Further volumes present topics such as Dynamical Systems, Fluid Dynamics, Solid Mechanics and Electro-Magnetics on an advanced undergraduate/graduate level. Volume I (Derivatives and Geometry in R3) presents basics of Calculus starting with the construction of the natural, rational, real and complex numbers, and proceeding to analytic geometry in two and three space dimensions, Lipschitz continuous functions and derivatives, together with a variety of applications. Volume II (Integrals and Geomtery in Rn) develops the Riemann integral as the solution to the problem of determining a function given its derivative, and proceeds to generalizations in the form of initial value problems for general systems of ordinary differential equations, including a variety of applications. Linear algebra including numerics is also presented. Volume III (Calculus in Several Dimensions) presents Calculus in several variables including partial derivatives, multi-dimensional integrals, partial differential equations and finite element methods, together with a variety of applications modeled as systems of partial differential equations. The authors are leading researchers in Computational Mathematics who have written various successful books. Further information on Applied Mathematics: Body and Soul can be found at http://www.phi.chalmers.se/bodysoul/.

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Calculus + Linear Algebra in One Series.......2005-01-05

I wish Amazon would put a text list of the "Table of Contents" for books.

Sorry about the length: Amazon does not allow postings for each volume in a series!

Volume 1: Derivatives and Geometry in R^3
1. What is Mathematics?
2. The Mathematics Library
3. Introduction to Modeling
4. A Very Short Calculus Course
5. Natural Numbers and Integers
6. Mathematical Induction
7. Rational Numbers
8. Pythagoras and Euclid
9. What is a Function?
10. Polynomial Functions
11. Combinations of Functions
12. Lipschitz Continuity
13. Sequences and Limits
14. The Square Root of Two
15. Real Numbers
16. The Bisection Algorithm for f(x) = 0
17. Do Mathematicians Quarrel?
18. The Function y = x^r
19. Fixed Points and Contraction Mappings
20. Analytic Geometry in R^2
21. Analytic Geometry in R^3
22. Complex Numbers
23. The Derivative
24. Differentiation Rules
25. Newton's Method
26. Galileo, Newton, Hooke, Malthus and Fourier

Volume 2: Integrals and Geometry in R^n
27: The Integral
28: Properties of the Integral
29. The Logarithm log(x)
30. Numerical Quadrature
31. The Exponential Function exp(x) = e^x
32. Trigonometric Functions
33. The Functions exp(z), log(z), sin(z) and cos(z) for z e C
34. Techniques of Integration
35. Solving Differential Equations Using the Exponential
36. Improper Integrals
37. Series
38. Scalar Autonomous Initial Value Problems
39. Separable Scalar Initial Value Problems
40. The General Initial Value Problem
41. Calculus Tool Bag I
42. Analytic Geometry in R^n
43. The Spectral Theorem
44. Solving Linear Algebraic Systems
45. Linear Algebra Tool Bag
46. The Matrix Exponential exp(xA)
47. Lagrange and the Principle of Least Action
48. N-Body Systems
49. The Crash Model
50. Electrical Circuits
51. String Theory
52. Piecewise Linear Approximation
53. FEM for Two-Point Boundary Value Problems

Volume 3: Calculus in Several Dimensions
54. Vector-Valued Functions of Several Real Variables
55. Level Curves/Surfaces and the Gradient
56. Linearization and Stability of Initial Value Problems
57. Adaptive Solvers for IVPs
58. Lorenz and the Essence of Chaos
59. The Solar System
60. Optimization
61. The Divergence, Rotation and Laplacian
62. Meteorology and Coriolis Forces
63. Curve Integrals
64. Double Integrals
65. Surface Integrals
66. Multiple Integrals
67. Gauss' Theorem and Green's Formula in R^2
68. Gauss' Theorem and Green's Formula in R^3
69. Stoke's Theorem
70. Potential Fields
71. Center of Mass and Archimedes' Principle
72. Newton's Nightmare
73. Laplacian Models
74. Chemical Reactions
75. Calculus Tool Bag II
76. Piecewise Linear Polynomials in R^2 and R^3
77. FEM for Boundary Value Problems in R^2 and R^3
78. Inverse Problems
79. Optimal Control
80. Differential Equations Tool Bag
81. Applications Tool Bag
82. Analytic Functions
83. Fourier Series
84. Fourier Transforms
85. Analytic Functions Tool Bag
86. Fourier Analysis Tool Bag
87. Incompressible Navier-Stokes: Quick and Easy

This book/series has some problems; however, the attempt to wed Mathematical Analysis, Numerical Computation, and Application AND to also talk about Calculus and Linear Algebra at the same time -- makes these three books worth a look.

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What Science Is and How It Works
Gregory N. Derry
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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"Science," writes physicist Gregory Derry, "is the active and creative engagement of our minds with nature in an attempt to understand." Not to understand anything in particular, mind you--just to understand, to gain a sense of our place in the world. Whether viewed as a body of knowledge, a collection of techniques, or a way of seeing, Derry adds, science is just plain interesting. It is also difficult to live in the modern world, which is so entangled economically and culturally in technology, without some grasp of science, technology's sire.

All that said, Derry states his aim: to show his readers how to think scientifically. In this aim he is quite successful, as his narrative proceeds through case studies that draw on real-world situations to discuss the importance of precise measurement, replicable experimentation, clear research design, logical thought--and imagination. He is quite clear on what constitutes good science, and he profiles a few heroes (Kepler, Einstein, Helmholtz, Joule) to illustrate how that good science is conducted. He is just as clear on what constitutes bad science, which often results when money and politics enter the laboratory. The fundamental virtue required of a scientist is honesty, he remarks, and a scientist who is dishonest or unethical scarcely deserves the name.

Part textbook, part manifesto, Derry's book offers both entertainment and food for thought for readers inclined to learn the ways of science. --Gregory McNamee

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An especially valuable feature of this book is the actual demonstration of scientific reasoning. Derry shows how scientists use a small number of powerful yet simple methods--symmetry, scaling, linearity, and feedback, for example--to construct realistic models that describe a number of diverse real-life problems, such as drug uptake in the body, the inner workings of atoms, and the laws of heredity.

Science involves a particular way of thinking about the world, and Derry shows the reader that a scientific viewpoint can benefit most personal philosophies and fields of study. With an eye to both the power and limits of science, he explores the relationships between science and topics such as religion, ethics, and philosophy. By tackling the subject of science from all angles, including the nuts and bolts of the trade as well as its place in the overall scheme of life, the book provides a perfect place to start thinking like a scientist.

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How does a scientist go about solving problems? How do scientific discoveries happen? Why are cold fusion and parapsychology different from mainstream science? What is a scientific worldview? In this lively and wide-ranging book, Gregory Derry talks about these and other questions as he introduces the reader to the process of scientific thinking. From the discovery of x-rays and semi-conductors to the argument for continental drift to the invention of the smallpox vaccine, scientific work has proceeded through honest observation, critical reasoning, and sometimes just plain luck. Derry starts out with historical examples, leading readers through the events, experiments, blind alleys, and thoughts of scientists in the midst of discovery and invention. Readers at all levels will come away with an enriched appreciation of how science operates and how it connects with our daily lives. An especially valuable feature of this book is the actual demonstration of scientific reasoning. Derry shows how scientists use a small number of powerful yet simple methods -- symmetry, scaling, linearity, and feedback, for example -- to construct realistic models that describe a number of diverse real-life problems, such as drug uptake in the body, the inner workings of atoms, and the laws of heredity. Science involves a particular way of thinking about the world, and Derry shows the reader that a scientific viewpoint can benefit most personal philosophies and fields of study. With an eye to both the power and limits of science, he explores the relationships between science and topics such as religion, ethics, and philosophy. By tackling the subject of science from all angles, including the nuts andbolts of the trade as well as its place in the overall scheme of life, the book provides a perfect place to start thinking like a scientist.

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Facinating book that was mailed in record time.......2005-09-16

This is a book that everyone should read whether or not they like to study and leatn about science. Amazon.com did an excellent job at making sure that the item got to me quickly and efficiently. Thanks.

A great book I might use for textbook.......2001-05-09

Informative, especially for the non-technical people. I am considering using this book for an introductory course to the Art and Literature students in Taiwan.

The book is well written and concise. Well suited for today's short attention-span students!

A pretty good book........2000-05-23

If I could summarize my opinion of this book in a single word it would be "ambivalence." The book definitely has its good points, but it lacks closure on many themes, is open ended in many ways, and it's a little of order. Perhaps Derry wanted it that way because scientific progress often goes the same route. This is supposed to be an explanatory text, though, and I would have organized it differently.

The book begins with a chapter consisting of several stories from the history of science, including the discovery of the structure of Benzene and the development the Smallpox vaccine. There are five in all, and each illustrates a different application of the method of science to discovery. The one thing lacking from this chapter (and from the book, for that matter) is a cohesive summary of the principles brought out through these examples. I think Derry wanted his readers to figure it out themselves, and so he shuns summary tables and lists as a way of making the reader think. Part of the author's message is that science does not work according to a given set of rules -- the kind of rules you might have learned in grade school. Instead, Derry presents science as a more fluid construct. I agree, but telling the stories had a point, and I believe he should have been more succinct in bringing out his opinion about what the point was suppose to be, especially in relationship to the stories meant to illustrate how science works.

The next few chapters list some important methods used by scientists -- some of which are illustrated in the examples from chapter 1. For example, chapter two describes how looking for patterns in nature provides important clues in scientific exploration. Chapter three describes the importance of instrumentation in scientific work, primarily in allowing scientists to observe phenomena in which they would be otherwise unaware. Chapter four explains how sometimes small discrepancies between observation and theoretical prediction often leads to the abandonment of old theories and the development of new ones.

Chapter five is a condensed history of astronomy, from the early Greeks through Galileo and Newton (the book uses examples from many branches of science, but mostly from physics, Derry's field of expertise). This chapter brings together many of the unifying concepts in science, but (again) they must be found and understood by the reader -- the author does not deliver them point-by-point in list or table format (even in summary).

Chapter six begins the second part of the book (there are four) by describing models, modeling, and approximations. This chapter is definitely long on "how science works" and short on "what science is." Reading the chapter on models, for example, might leave the reader with the impression that truth and reality are almost irrelevant and that the objective of science is to simply develop models that predict the outcome of experiments. I agree that models are important. However, I think it's safe to say they are more important in applied science and engineering than they are in pure science, and that there is still some expectation by scientists that fundamental scientific theories somehow give us a window into the way the universe "really is."

Chapter seven is among the best, and deals with the way logic, reason, critical evaluation, and evidence are built into the scientific method. This chapter describes deductive and inductive logic, the importance of documented (and repeatable) evidence, and evaluating causality. It also has some really good stuff on bogus arguments, giving examples of half-a-dozen or more common techniques used by people to fool themselves and/or mislead others.

There is also a chapter on science and religion, as well as science and how it relates to society and ethics. Both these chapters have little to do with the book's thesis (what science is, and how it works). The chapter on science and religion, in particular, is brief and tends towards reasoning based on semantics.

Another good chapter (12) deals with pseudoscience and how to recognize it. Derry offers "claims for perpetual motion" and "creation science" as examples of pseudoscience. Unlike other examples in the book, Derry shows exactly how and why these two inventions of human imagination ought to be classified as pseudoscience, and how they are fundamentally different from modern science. Chapter 13 describes boarder-land areas like cold fusion and parapsychology. These, Derry argues, qualify as science, but (especially in the case of cold fusion) illustrate ways in which science can (and sometimes does) go awry.

The third part of the book ends with chapters 14 and 15, which deal with the philosophy of science. Here Derry actually explains the important parts of theory formation, but only briefly. Most of this chapter deals with things of a pretty philosophical nature, such as questions about what causes scientific revolutions and how we know things. The nuts and bolts of theory formation are in the chapters on modeling -- chapters that unfortunately and amazingly virtually never mention the word "theory."

The last part seems almost like a separate book, and consists of six chapters that supposedly describe unifying concepts. While I could certainly find unifying concepts in the examples, I'm not at all sure that these are the best examples. For example, one chapter describes how volume grows faster than area, which grows faster than length, and how this determines maximum sizes for some animals. Another describes the importance of symmetry in mathematics and in art. Yet another describes thermodynamics and the "arrow of time." Finishing off the list are chapters on feedback loops, linear dependence, and exponential growth.

For me, this book started out slow, but ended up being reasonably interesting. Overall I don't think it's a great book on the nature of science, but it's okay and certainly has its good points.

Great Science Book.......2000-04-29

This book is incredibly well-written and imformative. It spans all of the sciences, and describes many breakthroughs and issues in the sciences, both current and from centuries ago. It delves into topics both simple and complicated, from symmetry to pseudoscience. Derry writes in language both simple enough to understand and interesting enough to keep you raptly engaged. One of the best books spanning general science. All levels.

Great Science Book.......2000-04-29

Permanent Magnet & Electromechanical Devices: Materials, Analysis, and Applications (Electromagnetism)

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Permanent Magnet & Electromechanical Devices: Materials, Analysis, and Applications (Electromagnetism)
Edward P. Furlani
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The book provides both the theoretical and the applied background needed to predict magnetic fields. The theoretical presentation is reinforced with over 60 solved examples of practical engineering applications such as the design of magnetic components like solenoids, which are electromagnetic coils that are moved by electric currents and activate other devices such as circuit breakers. Other design applications would be for permanent magnet structures such as bearings and couplings, which are hardware mechanisms used to fashion a temporary connection between two wires.

This book is written for use as a text or reference by researchers, engineers, professors, and students engaged in the research, development, study, and manufacture of permanent magnets and electromechanical devices. It can serve as a primary or supplemental text for upper level courses in electrical engineering on electromagnetic theory, electronic and magnetic materials, and electromagnetic engineering.

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excellent reference book for those designing magnetic motors.......2004-02-10

Last year I was seeking a reference book on permanent magnetic motors. I found this book to be an excellent choice. The subject material includes magnetic materials and properties, leading into the various classes of permanent magnet materials, a good review of Maxwell's equations, which is used to lead into several useful analytical models, before closing with a review of permanent magnet devices and electromechanical devices. If the book had included problem sets at the end of each chapter, it would have ended up as an excellent graduate level textbook on the subject. As it is, the book will serve experienced technical folks well, either as a refresher on material already known, or as a method of teaching new material in all its gory detail.

Petroleum Chemistry And Refining (Applied Energy Technology Series)

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Petroleum Chemistry And Refining (Applied Energy Technology Series)
James Speight
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Supported by numerous illustrations and references, this book describes the chemistry and physics that occur during the refinery operations, and how the properties of petroleum can be translated into predictability in refinery scenarios. The chapters discuss such topics as: the composition of petroleum, petroleum analysis and evaluation; metals and heteroatoms in petroleum; asphaltenes and the structure of petroleum, thermal chemistry of petroleum constituents; heavy oil upgrading processes; hydrocracking reactions, catalysts, and processes; and instability and incompatibility of petroleum products.

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I good book to recall my mathematics
The Chemistry Maths Book
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The Chemistry Maths Book
Erich Steiner
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ASIN: 0198559135

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The Chemistry Maths Book is a comprehensive textbook of mathematics for undergraduate students of chemistry. Such students often find themselves unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with the mathematical content of their chemistry courses. Textbooks designed to overcome this problem have so far been too basic for complete undergraduate courses and have been unpopular with students. However this modern textbook provides a complete and up-to-date course companion suitable for all levels of undergraduate chemistry courses. All the most useful and important topics are covered with numerous examples of applications in chemistry and some in physics. The subject is developed in a logical and consistent way with few assumptions of prior knowledge of mathematics. This text is sure to become a widely adopted text and will be highly recommended for all chemistry courses.

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I good book to recall my mathematics.......2007-01-30

i haven't learned math for several years and this is a good book for me to recall them and also give me new knowledge relate to chemistry.

The Chemistry Maths Book.......2005-08-20

It is hard to find a book that covers this material and this is a great book for anyone needing extra help with the math portion of chemistry

"The Bible".......2002-09-05

If you are an undergraduate (or even post-grad) student in any of the physical sciences then the best book you could ever buy for getting on top of math would have to be this book. Having come from a shaky back-ground in math ( it used to be my worst subject and my pet-hate) the book laid out the theory and the knowledge requisite for most, if not all, the theory behind physical chemistry. In fact this book is better than any undergrad math text I have ever come across and it's a special treat for the chem student because he goes over things you learn without really knowing why and he reinforces things later on- he really does build on concepts so that you don't forget them a week later. He also makes the subject interesing with little anecdotes and such- but not the type you come across in your standard highschool text with a grey drawing of a dead bloke in a bedsheet. In short this book is the bible for any student wanting to do a chem major and succeed in research- it's all you know you need and all you won't know you'll need til after you've read it.

a good book to have when you're taking pchem.......2002-01-17

I initially got this book because my math skills were shaky and being a chem major, I knew that shaky math skills would not suffice. I took a calculus course and glanced through the book, but didn't really use it so much. Then I took pchem. This book was a life saver, seriously. All the math and the equations that seem to come from nowhere in pchem books are deeply explored, derived and explained in an understandable fashion. If I didn't have this book, I would have been lost with my problem sets. Many of the examples they give in this book were actually problems that we had to do for class. This book explained pchem alot better than my pchem textbook (McQuarrie) and it is not even a pchem text per se!
I highly reccommend this book to anyone who is going to take pchem or needs to learn how to relate math to chemistry. This book, unlike many text books actually succeeds in relating math to chemistry and shows how math can be a tool to help solve problems. Many other chemistry text books I've seen just show you an equation and say "hey, you can use this equation to solve the particle in a box" but haven you ever wondered, why? Now I am not a theoretical type person, but I did enjoy this book becasue it explained where all these equations were coming from so that you didn't just try and memorize them and pray that the ones you did memorize would be the ones on the test. This book helped me to understand what the significance of these equations were, and how I could relate them to other problems. All in all, a very good investment.

A Must for Science and Engineering.......2001-09-08

Steiner lays out years of mathematics in a very concise easy-to-find way. If you're looking for unit conversions,basic algebraic equations, line integrals, matrices, or numerical methods, it's in there. What really makes this text so useful is that after dealing with a particular type of equation, he'll have a couple examples and practice problems (which have solutions in the back).

In addition to a clear exposition of the math, Steiner does a well-balanced job of applying the math to real scientific problems in chemistry and physics. For instance, in the section dealing with implicit solutions and inverses, Steiner shows how those algebraic methods can be used on the Van der Waals equation. He doesn't overdo these problems or make the book's scope too narrow--you don't have to be a chemist to enjoy this book--but these "real world" examples really do help you make sense of math, and make this book a very useful, enjoyable resource.

Solvent Gels for the Cleaning of Works of Art: The Residue Question (Research in Conservation)
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Solvent Gels for the Cleaning of Works of Art: The Residue Question (Research in Conservation)
Dusan Stulik , David Miller , Herant Khanjian , Narayan Khandekar , Richard Wolbers , Janice Carlson , and W. Christian Petersen
Manufacturer: Getty Trust Publications: Getty Conservation Institute
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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