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| Author: Arthur W. Adamson
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Category: Book
List Price: $79.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 832864
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5 Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 800
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.3 x 2
ISBN: 0471610194
Dewey Decimal Number: 541.33
EAN: 9780471610199
ASIN: 0471610194
Publication Date: April 1990
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Condition: Hardcover with dustjacket, 5th edition, 1990. Dj has two 2" long edge tears, is scuffed and creased on edges and corners, creased on flaps, no markings, pages clean
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 To many references November 17, 1998
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
It was the text book of a discipline in my graduate couse. I and my friends had too many troubles with it, the text is dry with to many references. The text simply order you to look for some reference, instead of explain some obscure part of theory. We only understood many of the problems after Adamson sent the problems answer. The solve some problems we must looked for some references cited in the text, and that took a lot of time. During the couse we used to say that some problems are impossible to solve, others you don't give the correct answer, and the last ones you solve correctely, but you don't understand the why you solve by that way. We used the 5th edition until chapter 10, than we tried another book.
Good in Some Respects, Disappointing in Others August 29, 1998
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The latest edition of this wellknown book continues its past tradition in every respect. Although claimed to be a textbook, it is best as a source of references and a compendium of advances in physical chemistry of surfaces. Certain chapters (e.g., surface tension) are good enough for use in classroom, but others are very superficial and very disappointing. It is clear that neither the senior author nor the new one is an expert in most of the topics covered in the book. It appears that they have simply collected references from the literature (quite indiscriminately in many cases) and have attempted to summarize the results. It is still a good book to have, especially since no one else has bothered to write a fairly comprehensive book on the topic. For those interested in the 'dry' side of surface science, Somarjai's volume is superior to this one.
 good July 6, 1998
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I like this book, though I hate the subject. If you write to Adamson (get your advisor or whoever to do it) you can get an excellent hand-written solution manual to all the problems, and he's prompt too. Explanations are pretty good, and there's a long list of references in case you want to find original papers.
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