Newnes Engineering Science Pocket Book

Newnes Engineering Science Pocket Book is a uniquely versatile and practical tool for a wide range of engineers and students. All the fundamentals of electrical and mechanical engineering science and physics are covered, with an emphasis on concise descriptions, key methods, clear diagrams, formulae and how to use them. John Bird's presentations of this core material puts all the answers at your fingertips.

The contents of this book have been carefully matched to the latest Further and Higher Education syllabuses so that it can also be used as a revision guide or a quick-access source of underpinning knowledge. Students on competence-based courses such as NVQs will find this approach particularly refreshing and practical.

This book and its companion title, Newnes Engineering Mathematics Pocket Book, provide the underpinning knowledge for the whole range of engineering communities catered for by the Newnes Pocket Book series. These related titles include:
Newnes Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book (Timings)
Newnes Electrical Pocket Book (Reeves)
Newnes Electronic Engineer's Pocket Book (Carr & Brindley)
Newnes Radio and RF Engineer's Pocket Book (Carr & Davies)
Newnes Telecommunications Engineer's Pocket Book (Winder)

Previous editions of Newnes Engineering Science Pocket Book were published under the title Newnes Engineering and Physical Science Pocket Book.

Auteur

John Bird

Contenu

Part 1 General Engineering Science; Chapter 1 SI Units; Chapter 2 Density; Chapter 3 Scalar and Vector Quantities; Chapter 4 Atomic Structure of Matter; Chapter 5 Chemical Reactions; Chapter 6 Standard Quantity Symbols and their Units; Part 2 Mechanical Engineering and Physical Science; Chapter 7 Speed and Velocity; Chapter 8 Acceleration; Chapter 9 Force, Mass and Acceleration; Chapter 10 Centre of Gravity and Equilibrium; Chapter 11 Forces Acting at a Point; Chapter 12 Simply Supported Beams; Chapter 13 Shearing Force and Bending Moments; Chapter 14 Bending Stress; Chapter 15 Linear and Angular Motion; Chapter 16 Friction; Chapter 17 Waves; Chapter 18 Interference and Diffraction; Chapter 19 Light Rays; Chapter 20 Work, Energy and Power; Chapter 21 Potential and Kinetic Energy; Chapter 22 Simple Machines; Chapter 23 The Effects of Forces on Materials; Chapter 24 Tensile Testing; Chapter 25 Hardness and Impact Tests; Chapter 26 Measurement of Strain; Chapter 27 Linear Momentum and Impulse; Chapter 28 Torque; Chapter 29 Heat Energy; Chapter 30 Thermal Expansion; Chapter 31 The Measurement of Temperature; Chapter 32 Pressure in Fluids; Chapter 33 Measurement of Pressure; Chapter 34 Ideal gas Laws; Chapter 35 Properties of Water and Steam; Chapter 36 Surface Tension and Viscosity; Chapter 37 Fluids in Motion; Chapter 38 Measurement of Fluid Flow; Chapter 39 Simple Harmonic Motion and Natural Vibrations; Part 3 Electrical Engineering Science; Chapter 40 An Introduction to Electric Circuits; Chapter 41 Resistance Variation; Chapter 42 Chemical Effects of Electricity; Chapter 43 Series and Parallel Networks; Chapter 44 Capacitors and Capacitance; Chapter 45 Magnetic Circuits; Chapter 46 Magnetic Materials; Chapter 47 Electromagnetism; Chapter 48 Electromagnetic Induction and Inductance; Chapter 49 Magnetically Coupled Circuits; Chapter 50 Electrical Measuring Instruments and Measurements; Chapter 51 Semiconductor Diodes; Chapter 52 Transistors; Chapter 53 D.c. Circuit Theory; Chapter 54 Alternating Voltages and Currents; Chapter 55 Single-phase Series a.c. Circuits; Chapter 56 Single-phase Parallel a.c. Circuits; Chapter 57 D.c. Transients; Chapter 58 Operational Amplifiers; Chapter 59 Three-phase Systems; Chapter 60 Transformers; Chapter 61 D.c. Machines; Chapter 62 A.c. Motors; Chapter 63 Revision of Complex Numbers; Chapter 64 Application of Complex Numbers to Series a.c. Circuits; Chapter 65 Application of Complex Numbers to Parallel a.c. Networks; Chapter 66 Power in a.c. Circuits and Power Factor Improvement; Chapter 67 A.c. Bridges; Chapter 68 Series Resonance and Q-factor; Chapter 69 Parallel Resonance and Q-factor; Chapter 70 Introduction to Network Analysis; Chapter 71 Mesh-current and Nodal Analysis; Chapter 72 The Superposition Theorem; Chapter 73 Thévenin's and Norton's Theorems; Chapter 74 Delta-star and Star-delta Transformations; Chapter 75 Maximum Power Transfer Theorems and Impedance Matching; Chapter 76 Complex Waveforms; Chapter 77 A Numerical Method of Harmonic Analysis; Chapter 78 Dielectrics and Dielectric Loss; Chapter 79 Field Theory; Chapter 80 Attenuators; Chapter 81 Filter Networks; Chapter 82 Modulation; Chapter 83 Transmission Lines;