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Engineering principles in everyday life for non-engineers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niku, Saeed B. (Saeed Benjamin) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, 2016.
Series:Synthesis lectures on engineering ; # 26.
Subjects:
Engineering > Popular works.
2-cycle engines
AC motors
Coriolis acceleration
DC motors
EMF
back-EMF
combined cycle power generation
electromagnetic force
engineering concepts
engines
entropy
guitars
hearing
hybrid cars
moments of inertia
natural frequency
rotary engines
signal transmission
stepper motors
thermodynamic cycles
thermodynamics
transformers
vectors
vibrations
weather systems
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Abstract:This book is about the role of some engineering principles in our everyday lives. Engineers study these principles and use them in the design and analysis of the products and systems with which they work. The same principles play basic and influential roles in our everyday lives as well. Whether the concept of entropy, the moments of inertia, the natural frequency, the Coriolis acceleration, or the electromotive force, the roles and effects of these phenomena are the same in a system designed by an engineer or created by nature. This shows that learning about these engineering concepts helps us to understand why certain things happen or behave the way they do, and that these concepts are not strange phenomena invented by individuals only for their own use, rather, they are part of our everyday physical and natural world, but are used to our benefit by the engineers and scientists. Learning about these principles might also help attract more and more qualified and interested high school and college students to the engineering fields. Each chapter of this book explains one of these principles through examples, discussions, and at times, simple equations.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print.
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781627058599
ISSN:1939-523X ;
DOI:10.2200/S00699ED1V01Y201601ENG026
Access:Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.