Advances in Stainless Steels is the fourth book in the IIM–Universities Press book series on Metallurgy and Materials Science. The book focusses on various facets—processing, component design, properties, fabrication and applications—of the wonder alloy: stainless steel. Stainless steels are a class of versatile alloys, which can be tailored to exhibit a wide range of engineering properties by alloy design and controlled thermomechanical treatments to meet demanding service conditions. Stainless steel production in India is presently about 1.8 million tonnes and accounts for nearly 7% of global tonnage produced. This is likely to show an enormous increase in the near future.

This book covers a broad spectrum of topics spanning the entire life cycle of stainless steel—from alloy design and characterization to engineering design, fabrication, mechanical properties, corrosion, quality assurance of components, in-service performance assessment, life prediction and failure analysis of materials and components. The contents provide useful feedback for further developments aimed at effective utilization of this class of materials. The book comprises articles that bring out contemporary developments in stainless steels and is thematically classified into the following sections.

• Component design, modelling and structural integrity
• Manufacturing technology
• Property evaluation
• Alloy development and applications
• Non-destructive evaluation methods
• Corrosion and surface modification

The articles are of high relevance and interest to manufacturers, fabricators, researchers, designers, suppliers and end users of stainless steel, and serve as a valuable source for everyday reference and also as a guide for providing solutions for challenges connected with alloy design, material selection, melting, processing, fabrication, metallurgy and applications.

The objective of this book is to inculcate interest in understanding transition-metal organometallic chemistry. No existing book has covered such a large variety of topics in such detail. The material is up to date and the students or instructors may not be required to look for extra material unless they wish to delve deeper into the subject. Basic Organometallic Chemistry: Concepts, Syntheses and Applications can be used by graduate and undergraduate students and researchers in many areas of chemistry to understand the fundamentals of organometallic chemistry.

• The chapters are written using very simple language
  
• Text is lavishly complemented with figures, equations and schemes for easy comprehension
  
• A large number of problems and exercises at the end of each chapter with detailed solutions
  
• Several carefully selected and recent references
  
• ‘Boxed’ matter on related interesting material
  
• Short questions to each chapter provided in appendix

Chemistry of Natural Products, A Unified Approach, provides a planned account of the common features structural and stereochemical of naturally occurring organic compounds). This is the only approach to bring about effective understanding of their chemistry. A variety of examples have been given to illustrate varied aspects so that the range of structure and behaviour exhibited by these compounds is retained within the set framework. The increasing application of physical (spectroscopic) methods like IR, NMR, CD, ORD, MS, High Resolution Mass Spectroscopy—using which, structural determinations are often done with very small or even microscopic quantities of the substance—is emphasised, without undermining the importance of ‘classical’ chemical methods. The section on problem solving helps to develop an analytical and critical evaluation of the data.

The Second Edition reflects the significant and important developments that have taken place since the publication of the first edition, particularly with regard to the biological aspects of natural products.

• Unified approach: Discusses all classes of compounds
  
• Unique approach: Discusses common structural and stereochemical features of naturally occurring organic compounds
  
• Page extent increased by 200 pages
  
• New chapter: Introduction
  
• Revised Introduction for all chapters
  
• Examples: About 100 examples across the book and 6 new per chapter
  
• Correlation with spectral data
  
• Problems: 5 additional problems
  

Engineering Physics has been conceived to develop a coherent, comprehensive and practical view of physics among engineering students. This will help them to develop fundamental ways of thinking and inventing in their future engineering practice. The book attempts to break the monotony of just stating theoretical concepts through the following 5 special features:

• The historical development of the subject is traced to show interesting links between the various topics.
  
• Theory and experiment are integrated and learning through scientific method is emphasised by seeking agreement between theory and experiment.
  
• Numerical problems are included at appropriate places to offer quantitative appreciation of parameters involved.
  
• Charts are used to facilitate comparative learning of topics that share the same unifying and founding aspects.
  
• Applications of each topic are discussed at the end of the chapter to give an idea of how engineering grows through the utilitarian translation of discoveries and concepts in physics.
  

Textbook of Organic Chemistry is meant for students who learn organic chemistry at the undergraduate level and who have already had exposure to the basics of chemistry, including an introduction to organic chemistry. This book conforms to the syllabus of Indian Universities at the undergraduate level, but can be useful to students at a more advanced level also.

The book has a deductive approach and reduces the need to learn by rote. The objectives are listed at the beginning of every chapter which gives the student an overview of the chapter. Each chapter has been structured in a logical and interesting manner that facilitates easy reading and understanding. This approach has been developed and perfected by the author over the course of his tenure as a teacher of organic chemistry. At the end of each chapter, exercises are provided which strengthen the students' understanding of the concepts discussed in the text. 'Challenging Questions' are given for those students who want to delve deeper into the subject. Topics of current interest that are related to the subject matter of the chapter are suggested for preparing project reports.

This book represents the hope that students of Indian universities who use it will appreciate that much of organic chemistry can be logically deduced from fundamentals and is amenable to reasonable explanations and deductions.

• Objectives are listed to give an overview of the chapter
  
• Involves a deductive approach
  
• Chapters are developed in a logical and interesting manner
  
• Extensive exercises are provided at the end of each chapter
  

The book provides a pedagogical introduction to the history of concepts in heat, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics The selection of topics is excellent; the prose is reader-friendly; the subject matter of the book is of fundamental importance to all students of science The book motivates, excites and at times surprises the reader The book is primarily on basic concepts and modern ideas Some of the concepts described in the book are quite advanced, but they have been rendered understandable to undergraduate and perhaps to even pre university students.