The final Chapter of the book considers the organizational aspects of quality management and reviews some of the important organizational factors to watch out for. Priced at just under 00 I consider this book to be of good value as there is little filling and plenty of direct fact in chemietry. It is easy to read, set out convepts short sections offering a comprehensive overview of the subject. For those involved in sampling, analysis and data chemietry, I strongly recommend this book as both a reference and educational text.
This is the third re-print of the book and contains 33 chapters covering most areas of interest to the analytical chemist. Chapters finish with a few problems for the student to attempt self assessment answers are provided at the end of the book.
The book, as said in the foreword, places some stress on the reliability of analytical data and on sampling techniques. Indeed these introductory chapters are useful, but the remainder of the text, devoted to individual analytical areas, khopiar sadly lacking in its structure and content. Most of the important details are covered, but in a superficial and confusing manner. The overall impression is not helped by the poor quality of the figures and the English.
Although this is the third re-print no additional material has been incorporated since the first edition In short this book needs a thorough revision before I would recommend it to my students.
This book is intended to centre around experimental methods which will be valuable to a wide audience. This has allowed the author to cover a wide range of techniques and to use varied examples. With such a wide remit, ordering and grouping of methods in a logical manner is bound to create problems.
These are recognised by the author, and where arbitrary divisions are required, as for example in Chapters 4 and 5, these are clearly explained. The index is also adequate for helping those searching for particular techniques. The book starts with a mainly theoretical chapter, starting from the basics of stress, strain, strain rate, leading through rheological models of flow to more detail on stress and strain analysis.
The next two Chapters deal in detail with tube and rotational viscometers respectively. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with tests which involve the sudden application or removal of force, with the main emphasis on viscoelastic fluids.
Chapter 4 deals with essentially small strains, whilst Chapter 5 deals with larger strains. Following this Chapter 6 deals with dynamic tests, i. Wave propagation methods, where inertia cannot be ignored, are dealt with in Chapter 7. The final Chapter deals with the analysis of viscoelasticity measurements-Creep, mechanical and electrical analogues, Stress relaxation, and leads through to time-temperature superposition and the relationship between the main viscoelastic parameters.
The text is clearly and logically written. Equally, the many examples from the literature are presented for their relevance and wider applicability.
Constantly the reader is referred to specific research sources or other more general texts. The book is rounded off by a series of Appendices giving details of the commercial apparatus currently available, together with relevant addresses. The detailed information in the tables is impressive and not always readily available from trade literature.