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Materials Science: Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik https://archive.org/details/StuffMatters https://archive.org/details/StuffMatters Very accessible and fun to
by rsfern 5y ago
Materials Science: Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik
https://archive.org/details/StuffMatters https://archive.org/details/StuffMatters
Very accessible and fun to read, and the book is structured around introducing a lot of fundamental materials science concepts in the context of everyday objects (silverware, chocolate, etc)
- halo 5y agoThere was a 3-part BBC TV series by the author called "How It Works" which convered essentially the same material which I far preferred to the book - I don't have a stream link, unfortunately.
- rsfern 5y agoCool! I hadn’t seen the series before. Seems like it predates the book actually, which I wasn’t really expecting I haven’t found a streaming link yet, but these (related?) clips look pretty interesting https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hkyfr/clips https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hkyfr/clips
- ajot 5y agoI would say Geoff Rayner-Canham's "Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry". It is obviously a university level teaching book, but I find it very appealing and not really hard to grasp. It made me fall in love with chemical processes and some material science concepts.