DRAFT CHAPTERS OF HOPED FOR BOOK ENTITLED "CLASSICAL RELAXATION PHENOMENOLOGY".
Because of incompatibilty
issues between MathType and MS Word most of these chapters have had
to be completely rewritten at least once. I have been in
contact with MathType several
times and they have identified MS Word as the culprit (surprise!). I
have helped them slightly but the best they can do is
encourage users to complain to
Microsoft because they state on a help page that MS only listens to
users, not developers. But the number of users of
MathType is a tiny fraction of
the total number of users and it has been claimed that MS could not
care less about such small markets (certainly consistent
with my experience). There are
two issues at this time (4/17):
(1)
Mathtype equations may be displaced above and/or below text lines.
This problem emerged after MS changed its file format from .doc to .docx.
For
Word versions 2010 or later this problem can be avoided by
saving .docx formatted files as .doc files, and editing them as such,
or by refusing
to use Word versions 2010 or later (my solution). As
usual for MS the word 'upgrade' as used by them is an insult to
the English language.
(2) Equations
that appear in the document as one thing [say y=x+1] appear
as something else when opened in Mathtype [say y=exp(x)].
This is an
incompatibility
between Mathtype and Word storage format issue (separate from the
.doc and .docx issue). However every equation that appears
within
Mathtype will also appear elsewhere in the document as the same
equation and vice versa, so all is not lost. It is also known
that MS Word
Autosave
should be disabled in older versions to reduce (but not eliminate)
this problem. MS's "solution" in newer Word vesions is to
not make
Autosave
the default setting - but always check this. The severity
of this problem could (from my limited experience) increase with the
number of
MathType
equations - my best solution to date is to use, as much as possible,
the Word Insert Symbol for Greek letters and simple algebraic equations.
As
a precaution I have also increased my Win7 virtual memory to 4X the
installed memory on my PC (8GB) rather than 2X.
Correcting for problem (2)
increases the probability of additional errors being introduced (for
Chapter One more than 1000 MathType equations had to be
corrected). Beware! It appears
that only Chapter One has been affected in this way (so far), hence
the caveat attached to it. Stay tuned.
Chapter One Mathematics (INITIAL
DRAFT BUT © 2017 Ian M Hodge). Errors
from (2) remain in the complete manuscript; checking is in
progress. Link is to mostly checked
portion
of manuscript to date (6/9/17) but errors in this portion
undoubtedly remain. Red
lettering indicates statements that
are still being checked.
Chapter Two Electrical
Relaxation (INITIAL
DRAFT BUT © 2017 Ian M Hodge)
This
is based on an earlier and much more limited unpublished paper
from the 1970s that was distributed world wide by someone else. I
could not find the time then to check
the paper
so did not submit it anywhere. A link to an eventually edited
version is HERE
(the editing hopefully corrects all the errors in the original and
includes changes to the
phase
convention used by everybody except electrical engineers).
This edited version has never been submitted in part because most of
the references and examples are
outdated.
Chapter Three Visco-Elastic Relaxation (will be the shortest chapter because of the definitive book by Ferry "Viscoeleastic Properties of Polymers"
Chapter Four Structural Relaxation (INITIAL DRAFT BUT © 2017 Ian M Hodge)