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CONTENIDO:

This series offers a comprehensive introduction to the structure, properties and behavior of solid materials-metals, polymers, and ceramics. Preliminary editions of each volume have been thoroughly tested at leading engineering schools across the country. The result of this use and revision is a presentation that is logical, concise, and eminently suited to the needs of today's engineering curricula. The approach is well balanced between the physics and the chemistry of solids. Special emphasis is given to principies that relate the properties and behavior of different classes of materials to their structure and environment. By WILLIAM G. MOFFATT, General Electric Company; GEORGE W. PEARSALL, Duke University; and JOHN WULFF, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Volume I provides the necessary background for the other books in the series by developing a consistent scheme for classifying and understanding the structures of salid materials. It features a quantum mechanical intro- duction to atomic bonding and presents the rationale for different types of bonds in terms of electron orbitals and wave functions. This leads easily to descriptions of solids in which the bonding is not purely ionic, covalent, or metallic.