Concepts and Applications in Agricultural Engineering
Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. I. Concepts: 1. Soil and water conservation engineering. 2. Farm machinery and power. 3. Food processing engineering. II. Applications (Solution of GATE Question Papers 1988-2005): 4. Long Type solution (1988-2002). 5. Objective type solution (1988-2002). 6. Short type solution (2003-2005). Index.
From the Preface: "The book broadly consists of two parts--concepts and applications. In the first part of concepts, the chapters of three major disciplines of Agricultural Engineering having critical and confusing concepts are analyzed innovatively. In the second part of application, it has been tried to present the solution of 17 years of GATE questions in agricultural engineering. This application part will also fulfill one of the perpetual needs of the student community to have a book extensively dealing with solved examples in agricultural engineering. In this section, readers will find applications of various concepts, discussed in this book and use of many other new concepts to solve numerous problems.
No attempt has been made to make this volume bulky; rather the portion of the book dealing with conceptual analysis includes only those concepts, which are confusing and difficult to understand. It is expected that the theoretical analysis of this book will sharpen the ingenious power of the readers and help them to solve problems quickly. Moreover, many problems are solved in different ways, which will help the readers in understanding and applying the concepts properly. This book is designed not only to make the readers able to grasp the concepts easily but also to solve the problems quickly and effectively."
