Name Index

Aiken, H. H. 414 Collins, R. J. 437

Allen, P. 424 Cornu, A. 261
Ampere, A. M. 227 Count Rumford
Appolonius 48 (Thompson, B.) 270
Archimedes 11 Countess of Lovelace
Aristotle 11 (Augusta Ada King) 413

Babbage, C. 413 D'Arsonval 247

Bakeland, L. H. 205 Davy, Sir Humphrey 227
Bardeen, J. 417 De Moivre, A. 378
Bell, A. G. 414 Den Hartog, J. P. 138
Berners-Lee, T. 431 Descartes, R. 226
Bernoulli, J. 110 DuFay, C. F. 226
Black, J. 270
Boltzmann, L. 228
Boole, G. 430 Eckert, J. P. 415
Boyle, R. 226, 277 Euler, L. 78
Bragg, Sir Lawrence 187
Brattain, W. H. 417
Bridgman, P. 319
Bush, V. 414 Fahrenheit, G. D. 272
Faraday, M. 227
Fizeau, U. L. 259
Forrester, J. 415
Carnot, L. 276 Fourier, J. 288
Celsius, A. 271 Franklin, B. 226
Charles, J. A. C. 277

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Galileo Merriman, J. 419

most chapters Morse, S. 414
Gates, W. 424
Gauss, C. F. 378
Gilbert, W. 226
Newton, I. 12, 491
Grignard, V. 343
Noyce, R. 423
Gunter, E. 41

Oersted, H. C. 227
Hagen, G. 114
Ohm, G. S. 227
Haggerty, P. 419
Orowan, E. 185
Helmholtz, von H. 228
Hertz, H. R. 258
Hollerith, H. 414
Huygens, C. 11 Parsons, J. D. 415
Pascal, B. 411
Pease, W. 416
Pepin 271
Inaba, S. 418, 438
Peregrine, P. 226
Ingendhouse, J. 270
Petroff, N. 110
Poiseuille, L. J. M. 95
Poisson, S. D. 396
Jacquard, J. M. 413 Polanyi, M. 185
Jobs, S. 424 Prandtl, L. 126
Joule, J. 271

Rankin, W. J. 272
Kao, C. 432 Reintjes, J. F. 423
Kelvin, Lord Reynolds, O. 95
(Thompson, W.) 272 Ross, T. 417
Keynes, J. M. 357
Kilby, J. 419
King, Augusta Ada
Shockley, W. B. 417
(Countess of Lovelace) 413
Silver, B. 437
Kirchoff, G. R. 228, 235
Sir Lawrence Bragg 187
Smith, A. 257
Stahl, G. E. 270
LaPlace, P. S. 378 Stibitz, G. 428
Lorentz, H. A. 228 Stokes, Sir George G. 131, 229
Lukasiewicz, J. 421

MacChesney, J. 432
Maiman, T. H. 258, 438
Mauchly, J. W. 415
Maver, R. 432
Maxwell, J. C. 191
McDonough, J. 416
Taylor, G. I. 185
Thompson W.
(Lord Kelvin) 228, 272
Thomson, B.
(Count Rumford) 270
Thomson, J. J. 228
Toriceli, E. 111
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Turing, A. M. 415

van Tassel, J. 419

Volta, A. 227
von Guericke 226
von Karman, T. 138
von Liebnitz, G. W. 411–442
von Neumann, J. 415

Watt, J. 271
Weibull, W. 396
Weiner, N. 415
Woodland, N. J. 437
Wozniak, S. 424
Subject Index

Aerodynamics 125–139 Casting 212

Air foils 132 Cast irons 201
Alloy steels 198–201 Chemical engineering 342–349
Alternating current theory 241–245 Column stability 78
Angle of attack 132 Composite beams
Antipathy concrete 82
Galileo for surface tension 113 Composites 210
Atomic bonding forces 180 Computer-aided design 423
Atomic structure 177–179 Computer applications 433–437
Computer history 410
Conductive heat transfer 288
Bakelite 205 Convective heat transfer 289
Bar codes 437 Control charts 392
Batteries 231 Couple
Beam deflection 76–78 (moment) 15
Beam strength 64–73 Crank mechanism 26–30
Belt friction 20 Creativity 309
Bernoulli equation 110 Curve fitting 397
Boundary layer 127 Cutting and grinding 217
Buoyancy 97

D.C. motors and generators 238–240

Calculators 419–423 Deformable body mechanics 59–86
Cantilever beam 15 Dimensional analysis 41–52
Capillary flow 114 applications 44, 47, 50, 76, 78, 83,
Carbon steels 198 101, 107, 114, 130, 132, 135, 148,
Carnot cycle 276 156, 161, 190, 284, 292, 293,
297, 332, 367

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Direct current theory 232–240 Highway crash barriers 331

Dislocations 185–187 Homologous temperature 188, 272
Drag coefficient 131 Howe truss 16
Dynamometer 21 Hydraulic machinery 155
Hydrodynamic lubrication 106–110

Electrical engineering 225–261

Electrical instruments 247 Ideal fluid 130
Electrical resistance, inductance, and Impact loading 80
capacitance 243 Impedance matching 254
Electric power generation 230 Infinity 10
Electromagnetic waves 256 Internal combustion engines 280–285
Electronic mail 432 Internet 430
Electronics 250–255
Engineering design 305–348
Engineering economics 357–369 Joining 219
Engineering materials 197–220
Engineering statistics 375–403
Euler number 130
Kaplan turbine 156
Kelvin's optimum wire diagram 364
Kinematics 24
Factorial Design of Experiments 398 Kinematic viscosity 95
Flow separation-pressure drag 127 Kinetics 31
Fluid behavior 96
Fluid mechanics 93–114
Fluid properties 93–97
Fluid statics 97 Laminar flow 102
Forming 214 Lasers 258
Francis hydraulic turbine 156 Lift force on an airfoil 133
Free body diagrams 13
Friction
(static and dynamic) 19 Magnetism 237
Magnus effect 135
Materials processing 212–220
Galileo- Materials science 177–193
ductility of gold 189 Mean ferrite path 199
musical strings 159–164 Measurement of time 255
Glasses and ceramics 207 Mechanical activation 343–347
Grinding wheel for high speed 335 Mechanical fuse 325–331
Grignard chemical reactions 343 Microelectronics 427
Microscopic structure 182
Moment of a force 13

Hagen-Poiseuille law 114

Hardening and softening 202
Heat 271 Newton's law of cooling 289
Heat diffusivity 296 Newton's law of motion 12
Heat transfer 286–298 Newton's law of viscous shear 94
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Nonferrous alloys 201 Stagnation point 126

Numerical control 415–419 Stainless steels 200
Stall of an air foil 133
Static fluid mixer 347–349
Statics 13–24
Ohm's law 232
Statistical distributions 374–396
Ostwald viscometer 95
Steam power plants 278
Otto cycle 281
Stoke's law 131
Streamlining 129
Strength-to-weight ratio 73–76
Pelton water wheel 156 Stress and strain 60–64
Perfect gas law 277 Strouhal Number 138
Periodic peeling of vortices 137 Structural models 158
Permutations and combinations 385 Surface tension 99
Personal computers 423–427
Petroff's equation 110
Pipe flow 101
Temperature 271–274
Polymers
Theoretical strength of metals 183
thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers
Thermal engineering 269–298
204–207
Thermodynamic laws 274
Polystyrene 205–207
Titanium alloys 205
Potential
Tool steels 200
(electrical) 229
Towing tank 152
Powder metallurgy 219
Transformers 245
Probability 381–388
Turbulent flow 102
Projectiles 24
Galileo 48–50
Pulley mechanics 30
Vibrations 84
Viscous drag 127
Vulcanization 206
Radar 258
Rankin cycle 278
Radiation heat transfer 286
Relaxation times 191 Water clock 111
Reynold's Number 102 Wear of metals 189–191
Rigid body mechanics 11–33 Weight of air 113
Rock and concrete 209 Wheatstone bridge circuit 248
Rope Wind power generation 321–324
Galileo 22 Wind tunnel 150
Wire resistance strain gages 249

Similitude 147–164
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
viscosity numbers 97
Soil bin 153
Sommerfield Number 108
Speed of light 259