Introduction to Flight
J. Anderson

Noted for its highly readable style, the new edition of this bestseller provides an updated overview of aeronautical and aerospace engineering. Introduction to Flight blends history and biography with discussion of engineering concepts, and shows the development of flight through this perspective.This edition covers new developments in flight, including unmanned aerial vehicles, uninhabited combat aerial vehicles, and applications of CFD in aircraft design. Many new and revised problems have been added in this edition. Chapter learning features help readers follow the text discussion while highlighting key engineering and industry applications. A new Book Website includes problem solutions and PowerPoint slides of selected illustrations for class presentation.Coverage of new developments in aero, including: UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and UCAVs (uninhabited combat aerial vehicles) in Chapter 6; application of CFD in aircraft design; and the newest spaceflight technologies.|Each chapter features a "Preview Box" that provides readers with a motivating rationale for learning the given chapter's material.|Improved learning features throughout the new edition, including updated Road Maps and Design Box features, new data, illustrations, examples and historical highlights.|More study tools including the addition of chapter summaries, and 15% more worked examples.|Approximately 35% new and/or revised problems.|Additional coverage of space flight vehicles, supersonic airplanes, trajectories, unmanned aircraft, and rocket staging.|Strong integration of historical and biographical information.|Readers are shown how concepts are reflected in the latest aero technologies.|Readers are given a good sense of what the chapter will present, and the sequence of topics to be covered.|Students are given numerous learning resources within each chapter, to help them learn basic aero concepts and applications.|The good worked examples help readers link concepts and their application in engineering.|Professors have new problems to assign, and student readers have a greater selection of them to test their understanding.|Readers are exposed to space flight topics as well as those relating to airplanes.|The author uses history and biography to show the evolution of aerodynamics and flight in a highly interesting and motivational way.|Examples in each chapter of the book.|See "Preview Boxes" at the beginning of each chapter.|See features within each book chapter.|See examples in each book chapter.|See chapter problem sets for each book chapter.|See chapters 8 through 11.|See chapters 1 and 2, and historical information integrated throughout the book. |Would you like a text which integrates the latest aero developments?|Are you looking for a text with coverage of both airplane and space flight topics?|Would you like a text which references history while covering the most current technologies?

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Wydawnictwo: angielskie
Data wydania: b.d
Kategoria: Popularnonaukowe
ISBN: 978-0-07-123818-2
Liczba stron: 0