Mathematics for Mechanical Engineers

Summary

Mathematics for Mechanical Engineers gives mechanical engineers convenient access to the essential problem solving tools that they use each day. It covers applications employed in many different facets of mechanical engineering, from basic through advanced, to ensure that you will easily find answers you need in this handy guide.
For the engineer venturing out of familiar territory, the chapters cover fundamentals like physical constants, derivatives, integrals, Fourier transforms, Bessel functions, and Legendre functions. For the experts, it includes thorough sections on the more advanced topics of partial differential equations, approximation methods, and numerical methods, often used in applications. The guide reviews statistics for analyzing engineering data and making inferences, so professionals can extract useful information even with the presence of randomness and uncertainty. The convenient Mathematics for Mechanical Engineers is an indispensable summary of mathematics processes needed by engineers.

Table of Contents

Tables
Linear Algebra and Matrices
Vector Algebra and Calculus
Difference Equations
Differential Equations
Integral Equations
Approximation Methods
Integral Transforms
Calculus of Variations Approximation
Optimization Methods
Engineering Statistics
Numerical Methods
Experimental Uncertainty Analysis
Chaos
Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic
Appendix A-Properties of Gases and Vapors.
Appendix B-Properties of Liquids
Appendix C-Properties of Solids
Appendix D-SI Units

Author(s) Bio

Kreith, Frank; Ames, William F.; Cain, George; Tong, Y. L.; Steele, W. Glenn; Coleman, Hugh W.; Kautz, Richard L.; Frangopol, Dan M.; Norton, Paul