Subject Index

Aerodynamics 125139 Air foils 132 Alloy steels 198201 Alternating current theory 241245 Angle of attack 132 Antipathy Galileo for surface tension 113 Atomic bonding forces 180 Atomic structure 177179

Bakelite 205 Bar codes 437 Batteries 231 Beam deflection 7678 Beam strength 6473 Belt friction 20 Bernoulli equation 110 Boundary layer 127 Buoyancy 97

Casting 212 Cast irons 201 Chemical engineering 342349 Column stability 78 Composite beams concrete 82 Composites 210 Computer-aided design 423 Computer applications 433437 Computer history 410 Conductive heat transfer 288 Convective heat transfer 289 Control charts 392 Couple (moment) 15 Crank mechanism 2630 Creativity 309 Curve fitting 397 Cutting and grinding 217

Calculators 419423 Cantilever beam 15 Capillary flow 114 Carbon steels 198 Carnot cycle 276

D.C. motors and generators 238240 Deformable body mechanics 5986 Dimensional analysis 4152 applications 44, 47, 50, 76, 78, 83, 101, 107, 114, 130, 132, 135, 148, 156, 161, 190, 284, 292, 293, 297, 332, 367

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Direct current theory 232240 Dislocations 185187 Drag coefficient 131 Dynamometer 21 Highway crash barriers 331 Homologous temperature 188, 272 Howe truss 16 Hydraulic machinery 155 Hydrodynamic lubrication 106110

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Electrical engineering 225261 Electrical instruments 247 Electrical resistance, inductance, and capacitance 243 Electric power generation 230 Electromagnetic waves 256 Electronic mail 432 Electronics 250255 Engineering design 305348 Engineering economics 357369 Engineering materials 197220 Engineering statistics 375403 Euler number 130

Ideal fluid 130 Impact loading 80 Impedance matching 254 Infinity 10 Internal combustion engines 280285 Internet 430

Joining 219

Factorial Design of Experiments 398 Flow separation-pressure drag 127 Fluid behavior 96 Fluid mechanics 93114 Fluid properties 9397 Fluid statics 97 Forming 214 Francis hydraulic turbine 156 Free body diagrams 13 Friction (static and dynamic) 19

Kaplan turbine 156 Kelvin's optimum wire diagram 364 Kinematics 24 Kinematic viscosity 95 Kinetics 31

Laminar flow 102 Lasers 258 Lift force on an airfoil 133

Galileoductility of gold 189 musical strings 159164 Glasses and ceramics 207 Grinding wheel for high speed 335 Grignard chemical reactions 343

Magnetism 237 Magnus effect 135 Materials processing 212220 Materials science 177193 Mean ferrite path 199 Measurement of time 255 Mechanical activation 343347 Mechanical fuse 325331 Microelectronics 427 Microscopic structure 182 Moment of a force 13

Hagen-Poiseuille law 114 Hardening and softening 202 Heat 271 Heat diffusivity 296 Heat transfer 286298

Newton's law of cooling 289 Newton's law of motion 12 Newton's law of viscous shear 94

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Stagnation point 126 Stainless steels 200 Stall of an air foil 133 Static fluid mixer 347349 Statics 1324 Statistical distributions 374396 Steam power plants 278 Stoke's law 131 Streamlining 129 Strength-to-weight ratio 7376 Stress and strain 6064 Strouhal Number 138 Structural models 158 Surface tension 99

Nonferrous alloys 201 Numerical control 415419

Ohm's law 232 Ostwald viscometer 95 Otto cycle 281

Pelton water wheel 156 Perfect gas law 277 Periodic peeling of vortices 137 Permutations and combinations 385 Personal computers 423427 Petroff's equation 110 Pipe flow 101 Polymers thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers 204207 Polystyrene 205207 Potential (electrical) 229 Powder metallurgy 219 Probability 381388 Projectiles 24 Galileo 4850 Pulley mechanics 30

Temperature 271274 Theoretical strength of metals 183 Thermal engineering 269298 Thermodynamic laws 274 Titanium alloys 205 Tool steels 200 Towing tank 152 Transformers 245 Turbulent flow 102

Radar 258 Rankin cycle 278 Radiation heat transfer 286 Relaxation times 191 Reynold's Number 102 Rigid body mechanics 1133 Rock and concrete 209 Rope Galileo 22

Vibrations 84 Viscous drag 127 Vulcanization 206

Water clock 111 Wear of metals 189191 Weight of air 113 Wheatstone bridge circuit 248 Wind power generation 321324 Wind tunnel 150 Wire resistance strain gages 249

Similitude 147164 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) viscosity numbers 97 Soil bin 153 Sommerfield Number 108 Speed of light 259