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This book was designed to provide an integrated treatment of the three areas of transport: momentum, heat, and mass. The similarities and the differences of the three transports are clearly stated at a level suitable for second-semester sophomores and first-semester juniors in engineering or the other sciences where the mathematics requirement is similar. Many of the basic equations are mathematically identical, when expressed in terms of the generalized flux and property variables. This identity helps the student understand transport phenomena and forms the basis for the organization of the material here. A typical curriculum teaches momentum transfer before heat and mass because a complete treatment of these latter two is not possible without a prior discussion of fluid dynamics. This text allows heat transfer, which is encountered daily by everyone and easily visualized, to explain by analogy momentum transfer, which is not easily visualized or understood by neophytes. Transport is rapidly becoming more widely used in most branches of engineering, and this text provides all engineering disciplines with a readable and otherwise useful treatment of this difficult subject. In most of the other books on this subject, these topics are covered separately.