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theory is emphasized rather than analysis and design of specific circuits. Exercises are provided (with answers) for eight of the nine chapters, which cover such topics as linear and nonlinear circuit operations, frequency multiplexing, angle modulation, rate of transmission, time multiplexing, pulse modulation methods and limited information systems. The book will be useful both as a text for a one-semester cour~c and as a self-study book for graduate engineers needing more information in this specific area. NUCLEAR REACTOR FUEL ELEMENTS. METALLURGV AND FABRICATION, edited by Albert R. Kaufmann. 739 pages, diagrams, illustrations, 7 x 10 in. New York~ John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1962. Price, $27.00.
Prepared under the auspices of the Division of Technical Information of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, this volume represents a compendium of the best thought and knowledge of nuclear reactor fuel element fabrication in the United States, excepting those for classified military reactors. Written for metallurgists and fabrication specialists, the book should also be useful to reactor designers. It is written in language such that anyone with college training in the physical sciences or engineering can understand it. Eighteen chapters cover background information (reactor materials, nondestructive testing, disposal of spent fuel and economics of nuclear power), uranium and plutonium and their alloys, cladding materials, cladding and bonding techniques, fabrication of core materials, fuel subassembly concepts, inspection and testing, and ceramic fuels. Well illustrated and well referenced, the book fills a need in technical literature. One wonders, however, what happened between August, 1960--the date on the editor's preface--and 1962, when the finished volume was published. In such a rapidly changing field, surely some of the information contained in the book will be of no more than academic interest after two years of progress. THERMAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, by James L. Threlkeld. 514 pages, diagrams, 8 large charts (separate), 6 x 9 in. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962. Price: $16.00 (trade); $12.00 (text).
This new basic text for seniors or graduate students in mechanical engineering can also be used as a basic reference for practicing engineers.
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Theory and analysis are emphasized throughout, although some attention is paid to application in the final two chapters. Topics covered include thermoelectric cooling, solar radiation, drying of materials, cryogenics, heat transfer and mass transfer processes with moist air, and periodic heat transfer in building structures. Enthalpyconcentration, h-x and h-W diagrams are used for solving problems of absorption, refrigeration and moist air. Three new psychometric charts for solving such problems over the ranges ot" l0 to 14.696 psia pressure and - 6 0 to 250 F. drybulb temperature are included. THR WAVE MECHANICS OF ELECTRONS IN METALS, by Stanley Raimes. 367 pages, diagrams, 6 x 9 in. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1962. Price, $13.00. The present volume is an attempt to bridge the gap between the elementary works containing little mathematics and the highly theoretical ones encompassing so much mathematics that they confound the reader. The book is self-contained, the treatment is mathematical (with refresher topics in appendices), and the emphasis on basic ideas. Techniques used in band structure calculations are omitted; the interaction of electrons is discussed in detail. Problems for all chapters are collected at the end of the book. References are either omitted altogether or are very sketchy for each chapter--a practice which the author defends in his preface by saying it "would be unnecessarily cumbersome always to give reference to original papers." LECTURES ON MODULAR FORMS, by R. C. Gunning. 86 pages, 6 x 9]/ in. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1962. Price, $2.75 (paper). Number 48 in the Annals of Mathematics Studies, this volume contains notes (taken by Armand Brumer) of a series of lectures given at Princeton in 1959, on the subject of modular forms of one complex variable. The lectures were designed to be an introduction to the recent results and techniques of Selberg and Eichler, and developments stemming from the works of Hecke and Peterson. The author treated only the simpler cases: modular forms of even weights without multipliers, the principal congruence subgroups, and the Hecke operators for the full modular group alone. The six lectures cover: geometrical background, modular forms. Poincar~ series, Eisenstein series, modular correspondences and quadratic forms.
BOOK REVIEWS
theory is emphasized rather than analysis and design of specific circuits. Exercises are provided (with answers) for eight of the nine chapters, which cover such topics as linear and nonlinear circuit operations, frequency multiplexing, angle modulation, rate of transmission, time multiplexing, pulse modulation methods and limited information systems. The book will be useful both as a text for a one-semester cour~c and as a self-study book for graduate engineers needing more information in this specific area. NUCLEAR REACTOR FUEL ELEMENTS. METALLURGV AND FABRICATION, edited by Albert R. Kaufmann. 739 pages, diagrams, illustrations, 7 x 10 in. New York~ John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1962. Price, $27.00.
Prepared under the auspices of the Division of Technical Information of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, this volume represents a compendium of the best thought and knowledge of nuclear reactor fuel element fabrication in the United States, excepting those for classified military reactors. Written for metallurgists and fabrication specialists, the book should also be useful to reactor designers. It is written in language such that anyone with college training in the physical sciences or engineering can understand it. Eighteen chapters cover background information (reactor materials, nondestructive testing, disposal of spent fuel and economics of nuclear power), uranium and plutonium and their alloys, cladding materials, cladding and bonding techniques, fabrication of core materials, fuel subassembly concepts, inspection and testing, and ceramic fuels. Well illustrated and well referenced, the book fills a need in technical literature. One wonders, however, what happened between August, 1960--the date on the editor's preface--and 1962, when the finished volume was published. In such a rapidly changing field, surely some of the information contained in the book will be of no more than academic interest after two years of progress. THERMAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, by James L. Threlkeld. 514 pages, diagrams, 8 large charts (separate), 6 x 9 in. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962. Price: $16.00 (trade); $12.00 (text).
This new basic text for seniors or graduate students in mechanical engineering can also be used as a basic reference for practicing engineers.
63
Theory and analysis are emphasized throughout, although some attention is paid to application in the final two chapters. Topics covered include thermoelectric cooling, solar radiation, drying of materials, cryogenics, heat transfer and mass transfer processes with moist air, and periodic heat transfer in building structures. Enthalpyconcentration, h-x and h-W diagrams are used for solving problems of absorption, refrigeration and moist air. Three new psychometric charts for solving such problems over the ranges ot" l0 to 14.696 psia pressure and - 6 0 to 250 F. drybulb temperature are included. THR WAVE MECHANICS OF ELECTRONS IN METALS, by Stanley Raimes. 367 pages, diagrams, 6 x 9 in. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1962. Price, $13.00. The present volume is an attempt to bridge the gap between the elementary works containing little mathematics and the highly theoretical ones encompassing so much mathematics that they confound the reader. The book is self-contained, the treatment is mathematical (with refresher topics in appendices), and the emphasis on basic ideas. Techniques used in band structure calculations are omitted; the interaction of electrons is discussed in detail. Problems for all chapters are collected at the end of the book. References are either omitted altogether or are very sketchy for each chapter--a practice which the author defends in his preface by saying it "would be unnecessarily cumbersome always to give reference to original papers." LECTURES ON MODULAR FORMS, by R. C. Gunning. 86 pages, 6 x 9]/ in. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1962. Price, $2.75 (paper). Number 48 in the Annals of Mathematics Studies, this volume contains notes (taken by Armand Brumer) of a series of lectures given at Princeton in 1959, on the subject of modular forms of one complex variable. The lectures were designed to be an introduction to the recent results and techniques of Selberg and Eichler, and developments stemming from the works of Hecke and Peterson. The author treated only the simpler cases: modular forms of even weights without multipliers, the principal congruence subgroups, and the Hecke operators for the full modular group alone. The six lectures cover: geometrical background, modular forms. Poincar~ series, Eisenstein series, modular correspondences and quadratic forms.