ABSTRACT

Engineering Science will help you understand the scientific principles involved in engineering.

Focusing primarily upon core mechanical and electrical science topics, students enrolled on an Engineering Foundation degree and Higher National Engineering qualification will find this book an invaluable aid to their learning.

The subject matter covered includes sections on the mechanics of solids, dynamics, thermodynamics, electrostatics and electromagnetic principles, and AC and DC circuit theory.

Knowledge-check questions, summary sections and activities are included throughout the book, and the necessary background mathematics is applied and integrated alongside the appropriate areas of engineering being studied. The result is a clear, straightforward and easily accessible textbook that encourages independent study and covers most of the scientific principles that students are likely to meet at this level.

It is supported with a companion website at https://www.key2engineeringscience.com for students and lecturers:

  • Solutions to the Test your Knowledge questions in the book
  • Further guidance on essential mathematics
  • Extra chapters on vapour properties, cycles and plants
  • Downloadable SCILAB scripts that helps simplify advanced mathematical content

part |2 pages

PART I MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

chapter 1|31 pages

Fundamentals

chapter 2|34 pages

Simply supported beams

chapter 3|9 pages

Torsion and shafts

chapter 4|12 pages

Pressure vessels

chapter 5|11 pages

Concentrically loaded columns and struts

chapter 6|11 pages

Introduction to strain energy

chapter 7|30 pages

Complex stress and strain

part |2 pages

PART II DYNAMICS

chapter 8|25 pages

Fundamentals

chapter 9|15 pages

Kinematics of mechanisms

chapter 10|23 pages

Power transmission systems

chapter 11|17 pages

Oscillatory motion and vibration

part |2 pages

PART III THERMODYNAMICS

chapter 12|17 pages

Fundamentals

chapter 13|10 pages

Thermodynamic systems

chapter 14|13 pages

Perfect gas processes

chapter 15|16 pages

Thermal cycles

chapter 16|19 pages

Combustion engines

chapter 17|12 pages

Introduction to heat transfer

chapter 18|29 pages

Introduction to fluid mechanics

part |2 pages

PART IV ELECTROSTATICS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM

chapter 19|16 pages

Electrostatics and capacitors

chapter 20|18 pages

Electromagnetism and inductors

part |2 pages

PART V DIRECT CURRENT

chapter 21|14 pages

Current, voltage and resistance

chapter 22|24 pages

Circuit theorems

part |2 pages

PART VI TRANSIENTS

chapter 23|15 pages

Transients

chapter 24|9 pages

Transients in R–L–C systems

part |2 pages

PART VII ALTERNATING CURRENT

chapter 25|16 pages

a.c. principles

chapter 26|11 pages

Complex impedance and admittance

chapter 27|13 pages

Resonant circuits

chapter 28|14 pages

Coupled magnetic circuits

chapter 30|15 pages

Complex waveforms and Fourier analysis

chapter 31|6 pages

Power in a complex waveform