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Accessible to graduate students and experimental physicists, this volume emphasizes physical arguments and minimizes theoretical formalism. Topics include the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer and Ginzburg-Landau theories, magnetic properties of classic type II superconductors, the Josephson effect, fluctuation effects in classic superconductors, high-temperature superconductors, and nonequilibrium superconductivity. 109 figures. 1996 edition.
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Excellent reference book.......2007-04-10
This classic book on superconductivity is excellent for an experienced reader who has already some background in superconductivity. However, for a student trying to learn superconductivity, it says too many things in too brief which may be difficult to follow. While teaching a course I would prefer to follow a book like Superconductivity by Ketterson and Song and refer to this book for selected (special) topics.
Introduction to Superconductivity : Second Edition (Dover Books on Physics).......2005-07-19
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An Amazing Introduction to an Amazing Field.......2004-08-03
The theory of superconductors is an amazingly complicated and rich field, and it can be very daunting to begin studying without a large background in physics. This book does an excellent job telling you the details enough to understand what is going on without giving you so much that it becomes a daunting task to read the book.
Having only read through the first three chapters so far, I give that caveat before continuing.
The first chapter, the author says upfront, is difficult to follow, as it gives a quick outline of every future chapter in the book. I would recommend skimming the first chapter, and then after reading each chapter go back and see if you got the key points illustrated in the first chapter.
The second chapter, a treatment of the London equations, does an excellent job deriving the London equations in the first section, then providing a great deal of application of the equations, as well as outlining the limits of that model of superconductors.
Chapter 3 is where the book gets down to business, as Tinkham gives an introduction to BCS theory. This treatment uses plausibility arguements to justify many of the conclusions or assumptions, but also provides some guidance to the mathematical rigor you might use to really prove the assertions you make. The chapter does not leave you feeling very confused at all, and the section can be read almost straight through.
Although I have not read any further into the book, I can only imagine that it is more of the same. I would strongly recommend this book to anybody interested in learning something about superconductors before trying something more rigorous, such as Schrieffer's classic text on the work.
A basic reference in the field.......2000-03-30
This book provides an excellent comprehensive review of most of the aspects relevant to superconductivity. A strong basis in physics is required to follow it all the way. Otherwise, it is possible to read most of the chapters separately without loosing continuity, so the more complex ones can be put aside if the reader is not interested in deep physics. Many references to relevant authors are given all along the text. It should be a reference available to all the people seriously involved in superconductivity. The only bad point is that it uses CGS unit rather than SI units.
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Introduction to Unconventional Superconductivity
V.P. Mineev ,
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Unconventional superconductivity (or superconductivity with a nontrivial Cooper pairing) is believed to exist in many heavy-fermion materials as well as in high temperature superconductors, and is a subject of great theoretical and experimental interest. The remarkable progress achieved in this field has not been reflected in published monographs and textbooks, and there is a gap between current research and the standard education of solid state physicists in the theory of superconductivity. This book is intended to meet this information need and includes the authors' original results.
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Excellent Introductory book .......2007-04-10
This amazingly simple book can almost be read as the bedtime story of superconductivity. It introduces the reader to most of the key concepts of superconductivity, using simple physical concepts, without going through complicated formalism. I would recommend that every student of superconductivity reads this book before embarking on a more formal course of supercnductivity.
A nice short introduction to superconductivity.......2000-04-12
I cannot help associating this book to the A,B,C of Superconductivity. I remember that, during the ICTP Workshops on High Tc superconductors around 1990, the book immediately dissapeared from the shelves at the ICTP library: too many people from other fields were introducing themselves in the -then fashionable-subject of superconductors. In particular, the book's attempt to make BCS theory understandable is notorious. Generally speaking, all the subjects are treated with simplicity and rigor, and some of them (as transport currents in the mixed state of type II superconductors) are approached in a specially comprehensible fashion. The use of the pendulum analogue for Josephson devices is very convenient to "hook" the reader. If I don't give it five stars, it is because much newer books as "Foundations of Applied Superconductivity", by Orlando and Delin (1991) are more updated introductions to the subject. However, "Introduction to Superconductivity" is still perhaps the winner of the 100-meter-run in Superconductivity.
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The book targets a broad readership. First of all, it targets young researchers (postgraduate students) in solid state physics (both physicists and theoretical chemists) as it contains a wide and comprehensive coverage of all important branches of the subject including an up-to-date survey of recent revolutionary advances in quantum mechanics which have made it possible not only to calculate many properties of molecules and solids in close agreement with experiment, but to make reliable predictions in cases when a direct experiment is not possible (e.g. the Earth core). Secondly, it should be a valuable asset to established researchers in the areas of materials science, solid-state physics and chemistry due to very detailed explanations of a wide range of phenomena ranging from symmetry, lattice vibrations, electronic structure and superconductivity to magnetic and dielectric properties. Rigour and detail in explaining complicated mathematical techniques and in providing derivations when talking of various physical concepts are essential for those who would like to really understand things they have never had a chance to. Because of that and of the fact that the book contains a lot of material from different areas of solid-state physics retold from a single viewpoint, it should be indispensable for lecturers. Not only a number of courses, both general and specialised, should be possible to set up, but these courses may also be of a different level of difficulty ranging from undergraduate, postgraduate and then to highly advanced ones. This is because of a clear marking system adopted in the book. Hence, it should also be useful for advanced third- and fourth-year undergraduate students.
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Clarity and depth combined.......2005-07-06
I think this book could be of a great help not only to students, but also to physicists who are not experts in condensed matter physics. I belong to the last category, and the book turned out to be very useful for me when I decided to refresh my knowledge of the condensed matter physics for research purposes. I am also thinking about adapting some of the chapters for teaching graduate quantum mechanics courses.
This book combines the clarity and depth which is a quite rare occasion for a monograph. Quite often you start reading a monograph and think: "Oh, I know all this." In the opposite case you see that the book provides new information for you, but in such a complicated manner that you give up. The Kantorovich's book certainly does not belong to these two categories.
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Introduction to High-Temperature Superconductivity (Selected Topics in Superconductivity)
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'Covers the full range of properties of HTS....belongs on the desk of every scientist and engineer working with HTS.' --MRS Bulletin 'Because of HTSCs potential for a strong impact on business and society, it is important that new and working engineers become knowledgeable in the technology. This book will become an invaluable resource for understanding the fundamental characteristics of the materials and how they can be used.'--from the Foreword by Donald W. Von Dollen, Electric Power Research Institute
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High-Temperature Superconductivity: An Introduction
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Here is a concise, tutorial overview of the exciting new field of high-temperature superconductivity. This authoritative textbook focuses on topics, experimental results, and theoretical issues that are likely to have lasting value and are readily understandable to upper-level undergraduates and others new to the field. Written primarily from an experimental point of view, the book reviews conventional superconductors and then presents the structure, normal state and superconducting properties, and applications of the new cuprate superconductors. An insightful analysis of critical currents in thin films and wires is included. The book will provide an excellent supplementary text for students taking their first solid state physics course. In addition, all those with a basic knowledge of solid state physics will find the book to be a useful introduction to the field.
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* Serves as a concise, tutorial introduction to the field
* Requires very little solid state physics background
* Includes problem sets and references to key papers
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high TC -SC mrinal.......2003-11-15
I have not reviewed. plz didn't ge t time....later n I need the book.
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What sets this book apart from others on the introduction to super-conductivity and high-Tc materials is its simple and pragmatic approach. The authors describe all relevant superconducting phenomena and rely on the macroscopic Ginzburg-Landau theory to derive the most important results. Examples are chosen from selected conventional superconductors like NbTi and compared to those of high-Tc materials. The text should be of interest to students and researchers in all branches of science and engineering, with the possible exception of theoretical physicists, who may require a more mathematical approach.
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Translated by Edward William Lane. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1865 edition by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, London.
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JOURNEY THROUGH THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.......2006-02-12
Enchanting novelization of the oustanding mini-series from Hallmark Entertainment, itself based on the familiar stories of mystery, magic, love, and adventure collected in the famous A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. This book is especially well-written in an energetic, friendly style by author Kathryn Wesley, and the stories of genies, thieves, wizards and rogues each come to colorful life, united by the beautiful tale of the brave Scheherazade and her fight to save not only her own life, but also the life of the man she loves, through the power of story. Highly recommended.
Arabian Nights.......2001-11-22
Arguably the best film version of "A Thousand and One Arabian Nights" in exsistence. Between stories of humour, adventure, and fantasy is the intriguing story of Scherizade, second wife of the Sultan, who must tell her stories to save her life, and to save her husband from madness and his treacherous brother.
An enchanting version of a classic tale.......2000-04-22
Arabian Nights is the second Hallmark Entertainment Book by Kathryn Wesley and even better than the first. Most of us are at least somewhat familiar with stories like Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The stories are retold here with humor and style, along with some stories with which most people are not familiar. But the main story here is the story of the clever storyteller Scheherazade, which is the best story of them all.
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26 magical tales of beautiful princesses, genies who emerge from bottles, and talking birds in: "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Sinbad the Sailor," "Noureddin and the Fair Persian," "Merchant of Bagdad," and more. 66 illustrations.
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A collection of 26 tales told by Scheherazade to save herself and other young girls from death at the Sultan's hands.
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Terrific stories for road travel with young kids.......2007-06-08
I bought this for my two sons, ages 7 & 9. We put it in at the beginning of a 2.5 hour trip and it kept our entire family very entertained. The trip flew by.
Reddragon.......2007-03-30
The product came quickly. It was exactly as advetised and met expectations. Thank You.
Magnificent!.......2003-12-08
This book is awesome! I read it 3 years ago and I borrowed it again from my aunt and I'm reading it now. If anyone knows where I can get a copy of the Reader's Digest version please post. Thanks!
An excellent collection.......1999-04-12
My four children and I loved reading this collection of stories from Arabia. Though I highly recommend any book by Mr. Lang, The Arabian Nights Entertainments is my favorite. Happy reading!
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Translated by Edward William Lane. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1865 edition by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, London.
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No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities on his wives leads to an outbreak of barbarity in his kingdoms and a reign of terror in his court, stopped only by the resourceful Scheherazade. The tales with which Scheherazade nightly postpones the muderous intent of the sultan have entered our language and our lives like no other collection of narratives before or since. Sinbad, Aladdin, Ali Baba: all make their spectacular entrance on to the stage of English literary history in the Arabian Nights Entertainments (1704-17). The stories contained in this `store house of ingenious fiction' initiate a pattern of literary reference and influence which today remains as powerful and intense as it was throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This edition reproduces in its entirety the earliest English translation of the French orientalist Antoine Galland's Mille et une Nuits. This remained for over a century the only English translation of the story cycle, influencing an incalculable number of writers, and no other edition offers the complete text supplemented by full textual apparatus.
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Buyer Beware.......2007-06-19
The publisher's description of this book is misleading. The translation dates from 1706-1721 but has been typographically modernized (e.g., long "s" that looks like "f" has been replaced). The blather about "textual apparatus" sounds scholarly but amounts to a few pages of notes, an appendix containing plot summaries of the selections represented in this translation, a glossary of foreign terms, and an index. The introduction is plodding, patched together from other introductions, and tendentious.
Example: "For [Scheherazade] ... story-telling is nothing less than a matter of life and death. Again and again in the collection we encounter individuals whose lives depend upon the responses of their listeners to their tales. If, in the frame story which structures the entire body of narratives, for example, Scheherazade fails to persuade the sultan Schahriar to rescind his pledge to execute each of his new wives on the morning following their marriage, she will not only forfeit her own life, but effectively will be Schahriar's accomplice in sentencing an untold number of young women to a similar fate." The heroine's failure would make her an accomplice in murder? I think not. The point of the frame story is that she does indeed succeed in delaying Schahriar's demented vengeance and ultimately cures him of his psychopathy. Whether this is realistic is beside the point: it's a story.
The translation in this edition was extensively bowdlerized, making funny, bawdy, and fairly raw stories suitable for reading by gentlewomen of early 18th century England. This translation of the French Galland translation (1704-1721) from the Arabic has historical interest as the most widely available version of the "Nights" in English throughout the 18th century, but if you are looking for a good, honest translation of these wonderful stories, this is not it. I suggest the translation by Husain Haddawy, which is varied, strange, and wonderful, but not for the squeamish.
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Small size book. Translation by Dr, Jonathan Scott.
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From Preface: This, the "Aldine Edition" of "The Arabian Nights Entertainments," forms the first four volumes of a proposed series of reprints of the Standard works of fiction which have appeared in the English language.
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