Overview

This book deals with simple problem solving. Universities and corporations are only now beginning to acknowledge that engineering problem solving is a unique creative process in its own right. This book is designed to help engineers make the important jump from mechanically grinding out textbook solutions to successfully analyzing the complexity of real world problems. The book consists of a large number of worked examples, each explained in a student teacher dialogue and illustrated.

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Author:   R. Friedman
Publisher:   Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S.
Imprint:   Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9780442004781

ISBN 10:   0442004788
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   31 May 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

1 Water, Water Everywhere.- 1.1 Of Time and the River: Speedboats.- 1.2 Of Time and the River: Sailing.- 1.3 Floating on the Pond.- 1.4 The Bubble in the Water Tank.- 1.5 The Bottom of the Lake.- 1.6 When Will the Puddle Evaporate?.- 2 Some Elementary Problems.- 2.1 When Do I Add the Cream to my Coffee?.- 2.2 The Hot-Air Balloon.- 2.3 How Far Can an Airplane Fly?.- 3 What is the Chance that ...?.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Division By 137.- 3.3 The Turbine Seals.- 3.4 The Keys to the Taxicabs.- 4 Unstable Behavior.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The Solid-Propellant Rocket.- 4.3 Boiling Water With a Hot Wire.- 4.4 A Catalytic Particle.- 5 Finding the Optimum.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Draining the Tank.- 5.3 Insulating the Electric Cable.- 5.4 Minimizing Automobile Collisions.- 5.5 Hitting a Golf Ball.- 6 Some Scientific Curiosities.- 6.1 Surface-to-Volume Ratio.- 6.2 The Leaning Tower of Pisa.- 6.3 Absolute Temperature.- 6.4 A Matter of Gravity.- 6.5 Letting Air Into an Empty Tank.- 6.6 The Two Capacitors.- 7 Violating the Laws of Thermodynamics.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Underwater Rotating Device.- 7.3 Electrolysis of Water.- 7.4 A Submarine That Needs No Fuel.- 7.5 Steam and Ethylene Glycol.- 7.6 An Odd Case of Radiative Exchange.- 8 Some Propagation Processes.- 8.1 A Weak Shock Wave.- 8.2 Melting Through Ice.- 8.3 Combustion Wave in a Thermite Mixture.- 8.4 Flame Propagation in a Combustible Gas.- 9 A Lecture on Dimensionless Groups.- 9.1 Mach Number.- 9.2 Froude Number.- 9.3 Reynolds Number.- 9.4 Grashof Number.- 9.5 Euler Number and Bernoulli Equation.- 9.6 Barometric Formula.- 9.7 Weber Number.- 9.8 Other Dimensionless Numbers.

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