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| View Larger Image | X-Ray Diffraction
by B. E. Warren
| | List Price: | $18.95 | | Price: | $14.21 | | You Save: | $4.74 (25%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 149933 | | Studio: | Dover Publications | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 381 | | Publication Date: | June 01, 1990 | | Publisher: | Dover Publications |
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Product Description
This rigorous graduate-level introduction stresses modern applications to nonstructural problems such as temperature vibration effects, order-disorder phenomena, crystal imperfections, the structure of amorphous materials, and the diffraction of x-rays in perfect crystals. Relevant problems at chapter ends. Six Appendixes include tables of values. Bibliographies. 146 illustrations. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 6 reviews)
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Coming from someone who loves math 
I love math, and this book is full of math. Initially, Warren's book would have plenty of sex appeal for someone like me, slightly frustrated with the lack of mathematical rigour in Cullity's book.
Was I ever wrong.
In derivations, I feel there are many important small details missing. A variable is introduced without it ever appearing in a diagram, there are dubious reasons for various substitutions and cancellations, etc.
The breaking point was my stray into Warren's book at the beginning of Chapter 13. Hapless little ol' me wanted to see the Scherrer equation for particle size derived from first principles. On the second page of the derivation, a vector s[0]' is introduced...without it ever being (explicitly?) included in the diagram. Furious, I minimized my Word document, pounded Amazon's URL out on the keyboard....
...which brings me to now. If this book had mathematical soundness, I'd be the king of X-ray diffraction. I really, REALLY want to like this book. Either Warren had already visualized how it made sense in his mind and forgot to write it down, or didn't bother to make it more straightforward. Which means he's either a freaking genius or monstrously inconsiderate.
December 11, 2007 | |
A Bargain for Experienced Crystallographers 
This book is a valuable reference for its discussions of imperfect crystals, including peak broadening from nanocrystals; temperature vibration effects that might factor into in-situ XRD; and especially the discussion on order-disorder. Even its discussion of Fourier methods (pre-PC) and diffraction theory are useful. At less than $20, anyone routinely using XRD to analyze inorganic samples should buy this book. After losing my old copy, I felt compelled to immediately buy a new copy.
This book functions poorly as an introductory text to diffraction or crystallography and is out-dated with respect to discussing instrumentation. This book is of limited use regarding soft-matter samples.
January 04, 2007 | |
Best book of its type for diffraction theory/fundamentals 
This is the allround single best book for learning X-ray diffraction theory from the ground up. It is superbly written. The most lucid and precise explanations I have seen anywhere. The relevant fundementals of electromagnetic theory are reviewed, as are any needed quantum results, but the emphasis is on exact and elegant derivations of all the major results of practical X-ray diffraction. This book has been a great help in my research developing new X-ray quantitative methods for complex envirnmental materials.
April 14, 2005 | |
Definitely not a book for beginners...
This book can probably be good for anybody looking for a specific information about X-ray diffraction. For this price really cool. But please, definitely not for anybody who has never heard about diffraction and really wants to understand this topic. Book has very little sample examples not completely solved and explained. On the other hand, it containes a number of really complex problems without any results! Take a look at another book instead.
January 14, 2003 | |
100% mathematics 
This is a mathematical approach to x-ray diffraction. If you want a more technical, less abstract book (with some history), order the Sir L. Bragg book. That one is much more comprehensible, actually enjoyable.
December 04, 1999 | |
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