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Engineering Principles in Everyday Life for Non-Engineers / by Saeed Benjamin Niku.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benjamin, Saeed., Author.
- Series:
- Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, 1939-523X
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Engineering design.
- Materials.
- Professional education.
- Vocational education.
- Engineering Design.
- Materials Engineering.
- Professional and Vocational Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Engineering Design.
- Materials Engineering.
- Professional and Vocational Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XVI, 196 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Entropy: Natural Orders, Thermodynamics, Friction, Hybrid Cars, and Energy
- Natural Frequencies: Vibrations, Hearing, Biomechanics, and Guitars
- Coriolis Acceleration and its Effects: Bikes, Weather Systems, Airplanes, and Robots
- Thermodynamic Cycles: Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Engines, and Power Cycles
- Moments of Inertia: Mass and Area Moments of Inertia, Accelerations, Inertial Forces, Strengths, and Strains
- Electromotive Force: Motors, Transformers, AC and DC Currents
- Author's Biography
- Index .
- ISBN:
- 9783031793721
- 3031793722
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