Practical Geometry and Engineering Graphics: A Textbook for Engineering and Other Students

✍ Scribed by W. Abbott C.M.G., O.B.E., Ph.D., B.Sc., M.I..Mech.E., M.R.I. (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

HIS BOOK IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE A COURSE IN PRACTICAL Geometry for engineering students who have already received some instruction in elementary plane geometry, graph plotting, and the use T of vectors. It also covers the requirements of Secondary School pupils taking Practical Geometry at the Advanced Level. The grouping adopted, in which Plane Geometry is dealt with in Part I, and Solid or Descriptive Geometry in Part II, is artificial, and it is the intention that the two parts should be read concurrently. The logical treatment of the subject presents many difficulties and the sequence of the later chapters in both parts is necessarily a compromise; as an illustration, certain of the more easy inter­ sections and developments might with advantage be taken at an earlier stage than that indicated. In Part I considerable space has been devoted to Engineering Graphics, particularly to the applications of graphical integration. The use of graphical methods of computation is fully justified in most engineering problems of a practical nature-especially where analytical methods would prove laborious -the results obtained being as accurate as the data warrant.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-5
Introductory....Pages 6-13
Circles and Lines in Contact....Pages 14-21
Conic Sections....Pages 22-41
Roulettes and Glissettes....Pages 42-53
Spiral Curves....Pages 54-61
Loci of Points on Moving Mechanisms....Pages 62-71
Graphical Differentiation....Pages 72-91
Graphical Statics....Pages 92-137
Relative Velocity....Pages 138-149
Harmonic Analysis....Pages 150-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Orthographic Projection....Pages 158-179
Sections of Solids....Pages 180-191
Isometric Projection....Pages 192-199
The Straight Line and Plane....Pages 200-249
Further Projections of Solids....Pages 250-273
Intersections of Surfaces....Pages 274-297
Other Systems of Projection....Pages 298-319
Solids in Contact....Pages 320-335
The Projection of Shadows....Pages 336-342
Back Matter....Pages 344-349

✦ Subjects

Engineering Design; Science, general