Description
Engineering Science is a comprehensive textbook suitable for all vocational and pre-degree courses in engineering, being fully in line with the latest vocational courses at Level 2 and leading into Level 3. Taking a subject-led approach, engineering students will find the essential scientific principles necessary for their studies, developed topic by topic. Unlike most textbooks available for this field, it goes beyond the core science to include applications in the real world and the mechanical and electrical principles required for the majority of courses. It is supported by numerous worked examples and problems, with a complete set of answers.
This new edition gives a detailed consideration of the basic arithmetic, algebraic and graphical methods needed in engineering courses so that it conforms completely with sections A and B of the BTEC Level 2 unit, and it provides the basic tools for the science that follows. A new chapter introduces the basic principles of calculus and more material is given on applications. This includes typical properties of materials and a discussion on the way properties of materials over the ages have changed the basic structures of bridges, weightlessness, snooker, thermal insulation and LEDs, as well as buildings, with a particular look at the engineering behind the collapse of the World Trade Centre.
Table of Contents
1. Basics
2. Statics
3. Stress and strain
4. Linear motion
5. Angular motion
6. Dynamics
7. Energy
8. Heat
9. D.C. circuits
10. Magnetism
11. Circuit analysis
12. Semiconductors
13. Capacitance
14. Magnetic flux
15. Alternating current
16. Series A.C. circuits
17. D.C. circuit analysis
18. D.C. machines
19. Transients
20. Structures
21. Beams
22. Components
23. Circular motion
24. Mechanical power transmission
25. Structural members
26. Frictional resistance
27. Angular dynamics
28. Oscillations
29. Fluid mechanics
30. Introducing calculus
