Eight Amazing Engineering Stories
Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies
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This book reveals some of the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters, the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of the innovation and engineering of digital camera imagers, tiny accelerometers, atomic clocks, enriching fissile material, batteries, anodizing metals, microwave ovens, and lasers. To help readers of all backgrounds, the book also includes introductions to the scientific principles necessary for a deeper understanding of the material presented in the chapters. The reader will be delighted by primers on waves, nuclear structure, and electronic transitions. It also features “In depth” sections on entropy, semiconductors, and the mathematics of capacitors.
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Eight Amazing Engineering Stories, Patrick Ryan, Nick Ziech, William Scott Hammack
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2012
- Bindwijze
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Eight Amazing Engineering Stories
- Ondertitel
- Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Patrick Ryan, Nick Ziech, William Scott Hammack
- Uitgever
- Articulate Noise Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2012
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 216
- ISBN10
- 0983966133
- ISBN13
- 9780983966135
- Reeks
- Categorieën
- Beoordeling
- 4,2 van 5
- Aantekening
- This book reveals some of the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters, the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of the innovation and engineering of digital camera imagers, tiny accelerometers, atomic clocks, enriching fissile material, batteries, anodizing metals, microwave ovens, and lasers. To help readers of all backgrounds, the book also includes introductions to the scientific principles necessary for a deeper understanding of the material presented in the chapters. The reader will be delighted by primers on waves, nuclear structure, and electronic transitions. It also features “In depth” sections on entropy, semiconductors, and the mathematics of capacitors.