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Comprehensive and unique in approach, this book will provide the necessary introduction to rheology for many undergraduates and graduates, as well as being valuable for laboratory and industrial staff requiring an introduction to this fascinating subject. 

Recommendations will be given for readers of different levels how to approach this book in such a way that the reading of it is fun ... 

The field of environmental sample preparation has undergone a revolution in the last twenty five years. What was essentially a series of basic methods and procedures has developed (and continues to develop) into a new exciting area with a strong influence from instrumental approaches. This book essentially covers the traditional approaches of environmental sample preparation for both metals and organic compounds from a range of matrices. 

The experimental study of detergency ranges from the very practical to the molecular surface-sensitive approaches discussed in this book. In more practical studies, model... 

The method of molecular dynamics (MD), described earlier in this book, is a powerful approach for simulating the dynamics and predicting the rates of chemical reactions. In the MD approach most commonly used, the potential of interaction is specified between atoms participating in the reaction, and the time evolution of their positions is obtained by solving Hamilton s equations for the classical motions of the nuclei. Because MD simulations of etching reactions must include a significant number of atoms from the substrate as well as the gaseous etchant species, the calculations become computationally intensive, and the time scale of the simulation is limited to the... 

V. L. Anderson and R. A. McLean, Design of Experiments—A Eea/istic Approach, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1974. This book provides an extensive exposition of experimental design at a relatively elementary level. It includes most of the standard material, as well as detailed discussions of such subjects as nested and spHt-plot experiments. Restrictions on randomization receive special emphasis. 

The purpose of this book is to share the experience of the author with those in the field. It is an attempt to make these subjects simple and interesting. The book should provide an easy approach to answer the problems an engineer or engineering student may face when handling these machines. 

VVe almost nes er stop to consider what is causing the continual failure of this equipment. This book will help you to step away from the fireman approach, of putting out fires and chasing emergencies. 

Another way is to reduce the magnitude of the problem by eliminating the explicit solvent degrees of freedom from the calculation and representing them in another way. Methods of this nature, which retain the framework of molecular dynamics but replace the solvent by a variety of simplified models, are discussed in Chapters 7 and 19 of this book. An alternative approach is to move away from Newtonian molecular dynamics toward stochastic dynamics. 

A variety of techniques have been introduced to increase the time step in molecular dynamics simulations in an attempt to surmount the strict time step limits in MD simulations so that long time scale simulations can be routinely undertaken. One such technique is to solve the equations of motion in the internal degree of freedom, so that bond stretching and angle bending can be treated as rigid. This technique is discussed in Chapter 6 of this book. Herein, a brief overview is presented of two approaches, constrained dynamics and multiple time step dynamics. 

The design approach is particularly feasible for those reactions in which chemical and pore diffusion rates are most important. For flow related phenomena semi-empirical, dimensionless correlations must be relied on. Therefore in this book scale-up will be used in the more general sense with the airri of using methods that are fundamentally based wherever feasible. 

The purpose of this book is not to advance the bastions of academia, but to offer the tried and true design approaches implemented by many engineers in the power held. It offers advice and examples which can be immediately applied to the reader s own designs. 

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