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statistical model is more nearly a model for a reaction than sian distribution and x2. If the book has a highlight i t is it is for nuclear structure; but the first two pay very little the section on the least squares method which is written in a attention to reactions. Xn excellent pair of articles considdelightfully airy vein (it is also understandable). The first ers resonant reactions from an experimental and from a theo- chapter is followed by one on “Atomic Constants” which retical viexpoint. Three articles are devoted to reviews of has a short listing of the same-one should be careful here of experimental results including an interesting account of the the M K S system which redly seems out of place in the experiments being done with heilv~--ionaccelerators. One atomic domain. This is followed by a chapter entitled article is devoted to the modern formalism of angular corre“Elements and Isotopes” containing information readilv lations and polarization. available in 1001 other places. Chapter 4 on “Heavy partiFor the most part the different chapters are not well corcles” contains useful (but readily available in more complete related with each other and the book must be viewed as a form elsewhere) data on the ranges and magnetic rigidicollection of separate papers. Since, with one or two excep- ties of protons, deuterons and a-particles. T h e fifth tions, the articles are well written and stimulating, the book, chapter entitled “Electrons” is devoted principally t o n judged in this manner, is altogether successful; it will appeal discussion and tabular presentation of data relevant to 8both to the student and t o the research worker who wants an decay and K-capture. The next chapter on “Gamma authoritztive, b u t for the most part not too technical, ac- Rays” is devoted t o a cursory discussion of proton abcount of nuclear reactions. With the second volume we will sorption, y-decay half-lives and internal conversion. The presumably have a rather complete account of the subject. seventh chapter on X-Ral-s and Anger electrons has quite conventional data. Chapter eight on “Angular DisPHYSICS DEPARTMENT tributions and Correlations” is completely unintelligible to USIVERSITYOF ROCHESTER J. B. FRENCHthe uninitiated and not in the best form for the initiated. ROCHESTER 20, KEW YORK The next to last chapter on “Nuclear Models” is a hodgepodge of items for which there did not seem to be any logical place elsewhere and the last chapter, “Calibration Electroanalytical Chemistry. Second Edition-Revised Standards” is an excellent example of presentation of facts and Enlarged. BY JAMES J. LINGANE,B.Chem., Ph.D., xell known to the expert and in non-usable form for the nonProfessor of Chemistry, Harvard University. Intersciexpert. ence Publishers, Inc., 250 Fifth Avenue, riew York 1, I t is really not clear why this book was written, for fully a t N. Y. 1958. xiv 669 pp. 16 X 23 cm. Price, least 75% of the material presented is in the working library $14.50. of any physicist (or readily available t o him) concerned with This book makes a rather comprehensive survey of the nuclear physics. The remaining 25c0which is of use only to field of electroanalytical chemistry, both classical and mod- the specialist is surely already in his possession. I t does not appear to me t h a t the argument of compactness of this inern. Included are chapters on potentiornetry, conductimetry, polarography, controlled potential electrolysis, coulom- formation is sufficiently strong to warrant the investment. It should be noted that the physical make-up of the book is etry, and chronopotentiometry. excellent. The second edition differs from the first priinarily in t h a t it is intended t o be used as an advanced test rather than as a DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTROXOMY reference book. h-ew chapters have been added dealing UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER M. F. KAPLOS with electrical measurements, polarography, amperometry ROCHESTER 20, NEW YORK and chroriopotentiometry. The material dealing with coulometry has been extensively revised and brought up to date. The style is fluent, and the new material has been blended skillfully into the old. The treatment is authoritative. Elements of Heat Transfer. Third Edition. By the late M A X JAKOB,Research Professor of Mechanical EngineerMuch of the hook is on the level of an advanced textbook, ing, Illinois Institute of Technology, and GEORGEA . and the discussion is fairly general. However, the chapters HAWKINS, Dean of Engineering, Director, Engineering dealing with coulometry and controlled potential electrolws Experiment Station, Purdue University. John Wiley and are inore in the nature of excellent monographs. Sons, Inc., 440 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Some sections of the book may be criticized for unevenness 1957. sxv 317 pp. 16 X 23.5cm. Price, $6.75. of treatment, particularly the chapters on electrical measurements and polarography. B u t it is hard t o see how this I n 1950, Jakob and Haivkins introduced a second edition could be avoided without unduly expanding the book. of their short monograph “Elements of Heat Transfer and One of us is currently using this book as a text, with satisInsulation,” in which, as the authors declared, the revisioii factory results. consisted of lengthening, detailing and increasing the coin Professor Lingane has rendered a real service in preparing plexity of certain sections without altering the content or this authoritative survey of a field for which no comparable arrangement of the book fundamentally. Apparently much textbook exists. the same attitude has occupied Dean Hawkins in his preparation of a third edition: extensions of the t e s t and new 1)EPARTlrlENT O F cHEXISTR>FLORIDA STATE USIVERSITV CHARLESI;. MANX problems have been added, insulation has been de-eniphaTALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA ERXEST GRUSW’ALD sized (the term has disappeared from the title), and a chapter on mass transfer has been appended, hut thc book i5 basically unchanged. Thus i t retains most of the advantages of its earlier editions and most of the defects 3s well. In B y A. H. ~VAPSTRA, G. J. Nuclear Spectroscopy Tables. some cases the new advantage of added rnaterial is at least SIJGH and R. V ~ N LIESHOUT, Institute for Nuclear partly off-set hy the disadvantage resulting from tacking Physics Research, Amsterdam. Interscience Publishers, the new material loosely to the old text instead of integrating Inc., 250 Fifth Avenue, S e w k‘ork 1, X. Y . 19-58, vii it into rewritten test. .In example is provided in the chap135 pp. 20 X 27 cm. Price. $8.90. ter on fluids in turbulent flow through pipes: a short section This hook is indeed quite puzzling; the puzzle concerns on liquid metals is a proper addition; less than proper, the audience for which it !vas written., It is clearly not however, is the irlconsistenc~-of reading in preceding uiirc\r.ritten for the non-expert in the field of Nuclear Specvised passages that the Dittus--Boelter equation is applicable troscopy, for the treatment of the topics is so cursor\- as to t o any fluid, only to learn two pages later t h a t the author\ make most of the tables all but useless for the individual who really meant an>-fluid escept a metallic one. is not steeped in the subject. On the other hand, the introAmong the special assets of the book are the folluwing: duction is useless for the expert who is quite familiar with the inclusion of such bits of modernity as convective heat the material and is in fact for him quite trite. Indeed, transfer t o liquid metals, the behavior of fluids a t Mach those sections of the book which would be readily undernumber 2 unity, and the application of electrical analogs to standable are essentially trivial. heat transfer calculations; the simple development of special The book is divided into ten chapters. The first “Matheforms of the integrated Fourier equation, and detailed elabmatical Data” has (for reasons incomprehensible t o the oration (by example) of relaxation methods; an analysis reviewer) tables of four-place logarithms, powers of ten, and explanation of finned surfaces; a very good prCcis of powers of two and cube roots. The chapter is rounded out heat transfer by radiation; direction of the reader to the by two subsections on the least squares method and quad- problems of measuring conductivity and emissivity, and to ratic interpolation followed by cursory tables of the Gaus- the general difficulty encountered in temperature measure-
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