Mechanical Engineering

Contents: 1. Fundamental concept and definition. 2. Ideal gas. 3. Laws of thermodynamics. 4. First law of thermodynamics. 5. The second law of thermodynamics. 6. Vapour power cycles. 7. Thermodynamic cycles. 8. Simple stress and strain. 9. Bending and shearing stress. 10. Torsion. Index.

"The present title "Mechanical Engineering" has been design for all engineering students of Indian Universities to meet out the basic requirement of the students in making their concepts clear. In order to provide the reader with practice interpreting truth tables and logic symbols, the method of perfect induction is used to prove most of the theorems. For the most part, real commercially available device characteristics are employed. In this way the reader may become familiar with the order of magnitude of device parameters, and the variability of these parameters within a given type. The book is written is a single and easy to follow language, so that even an average student an grasp subject by self study. Special effort has also been made to indicate the shortest analysis of a wide variety of problems." (jacket)