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This chapter is included to provide a point of departure for the remainder of the text. It is intended to be at once informative and heuristic. As such, it is intended to provide a beginning student with a sufficiently well-grounded, yet purely qualitative appreciation for the topics that follow in the remainder of the text. Moreover, it may serve to remind those students and practitioners who are more experienced of the basic concepts in a simple, pictorial form, and perhaps to allow them to view the basic concepts from a somewhat different viewpoint. The qualitative discussion presented in this chapter is subsequently restated more formally, mathematically and quantitatively in Chapters 2–4.
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Stangle, G.C. (1998). Balance equations: An informal description. In: Modelling of Materials Processing. Materials Technology Series, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5813-2_1
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