Dr.
Himmelblrtu has demonstrated this depth and the work is arranged in such
BOOK REVIEWS
Prognostications concerning the potential
of gas turbines in automobiles are, how-
ever, conspicuously absent.
For university libraries, no general
recommendation can be made concerning
this volume. Whether or not i t would be
useful depends upon the particular cur-
ricula and upon the availability of other
sources of the information presented in
this volume. For those librmieries that
include earlier volumes of this series, this
reviewer recommends that the frequency
of their use be ascertained before a decision least one problem to demonstrate the
is made concerning this volume.
R. . IHENGSTEBECK
. lustrative problem is so clearly and
Ameriean Oil Company
Whiting, Indiana
Basic Principles and Caleulmtionr in
Chemical Engineering
David M . Himmelblau, University of
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Texas, Austin. Prentice-Hall, Inc., En-
glewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1962.
viii+ 459 pp. Figs. and tables.
15.5 X 23.5 em. $9.75.
It requires courage and conviction
to prepare a manuscript in 8. field already
xs well covered by texts as is the first
chemical engineering mathematicties course.
It is, therefore, a mark of outstanding
J. Chem. Educ. 1963.40:A322.
ability to be able t o write a text which
will not only successfully enter the field
but will unquestionably challenge the
leadership of the alder texts in this area.
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type of ability in the preparation of this
text.
Actually, there is not much t o be
added to the subject of beginning cal-
culations. The general principles, and
even the problems, are of such a standard
character that there can be little of
the new or the novelty in the subject
material itself. Hence, emphasis must
be placed on the method of presentation.
In this Dr. Himmelblau has excelled.
A free and rather informal discourse
leads t o the logical ddevelopment of
illustrative problems, there being a t
application of each of the principles
introduced. The solution of each il-
adequately presented that the average
student should be able t o solve the
practice problems with a minimum of
supplemental ininstruction.
The text consists of six chapters and
a well selected group of tables of data
as a supplement. The subject matter
coverage of the first five chapters is
approximately normal for the course
for which the text is obviously written
and is closely comparable to that of
other texts in this field. The subjects
of introductory cdculations, material
balances, the phenomena related t o gas
laws, vapor pressure and phase phe-
nomena, energy balances, and combina-
tions of the material and energy balances
are certainly standard for a chemical
engineering course a t the beginning level.
Each subject is covered in adequate
a manner that the individual instructor
can readily tailor a course to fit the
time allocated in his particular curriculum
to introductory chemical engineering cal-
culations. Dr. Himmelblau's sixth chap-
ter is one dealing with the unsteady
state material and energy balances. This
is something of an innovation, although
a welcome one, for the work in stoiehi-
ometry. It will be very useful providing
the student using the text has had an
appropriate background in mathematics.
A short section near the end of each
chapter, in which there is summarized
the principles the student should have
learned in that chapter, is an interesting
addition to the text. The compilations
should be thought provoking t o the
student.
Each chapter has alist of supplementary
references. Since these references are
mostly other texts, the list is repeated,
without much difference, at the end of
each of several chapters. These references
could be improved, if they are to be added
in this fashion, by citation of page or
chapter.
The practice problems a t the end of
each chapter, a total of over four hundred,
are certainlv adecluate in number. Thev
are clearly and concisely presented, and
they appear to be graded carefully in
complexity.
I n the way of recapitulation, the
straightforward presentation combined
with a writing style of such a nature as to
promote easy reading, the well-organized
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 arrangement of tprt and problems, and
the unusually good explanation of the
illustrative problems make this a n excel-
lent toxt. Fine printing of a n easily
readable type on high quality paper has
produced a. book which is a compliment t o
the printer's skill.
This is a text which should find im-
mediate adoption by many chemical engi-
neering departments. I t has been written
essentially for students. To his credit
the author has not attempted t o make i t
anything else.
B . E . LAUER
Unzvemtg of Colorado
Boulder

Methods of Experimental Physics.

Volume 3, Molecular Physics
Edited by Dvdley Williams, Ohio State
University, Columbus. Academic
Press, Ine., New York, 1062. xiv +
760 pp. Figs. and tables. 16 X 23.5
cm. $19.
This is one volume of a six-volume series
rovering the various areas of experimental
physirs. Of the six this is probably t,he
one of greatest interest t,o rhemists. The
major areas covered in this volume are:
Molecular spectroscopy (microwave, I. R.,
Raman, electronic), Resonanre studies
(NMR, electron spin resonanre, quadru-
pole resonance), Mass spectrometrv,
Molecular beams, Elertrir properties, and
TTltrasonicstudies.
The material inrluded is quite up-to-
date, including such recent innuvations as
the use of optical masers as Raman light
sources. Also, since earh rhnpter is
written by someone in the field involved,
fairly complete coverage of earh area is
insured. The general approach in each
chapter is t o give a fairly thorough +,he-
<retical description of the particular
phenomenon followed by a discussion of
t,he various experimental terhniques used
with references t o the original work of
many of theinvestigatorsin t,he field.
The book is obviously writt,en for phys-
iris& and is eonrerned primarily with
the various physical phenomena and
spends little time dealing with t,he applira-
tians of the techniques. I t is for just this
reason, however, t h a t it can he of value t o
the chemist. All t,oo often the powerful
tools of modern strurture determination
are used by people who do not thoroughly
understand the underlying prinriples and
methods involved in the technique t,hat
they are using. The result is often in-
correct interpretation of the data and the
subsequent inrlusion in the literature of
information whirh must later he ror-
reeted.
This volume treats the suhjert a t a
fairlv hieh level hut the treatment is gen-
eralii clear so t h a t m e need not he
a mathematical physirist t o understand
it. I t should be of particular value t o
chemists interested in the area of structure
determination as a convenient reference
to all of the modern techniques and the
manner in which the," relate t o the under-
lying theory.
H. LOEHLIN
JAMES
College of Woosler
Woonter, Ohio

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