Ovid W. Eshbach

Wiley-Interscience; 4 edition (March 21, 1990), ISBN: 0471890847
This is the essential engineering reference book. It's all here, in one place and well-organized. You will never need more than a small fraction of it your entire design career. But the for that fraction that you do need you will find it indispensible.

From the Inside Flap

Eshbach’s Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals, the standard engineering reference work for over fifty years, has been updated and revised in this Fourth Edition. The coverage of the revised Handbook addresses all the fundamental subdivisions of engineering, including electronics, controls, fluids, with a special emphasis on the various elements of mechanical and aerospace engineering. The Fourth Edition includes entirely new chapters on materials, acoustics, and computers. In addition, all chapters have been rewritten and revised to reflect changes since the previous edition of the Handbook was published. The coverage is organized around these main subjects: mathematical and physical units, standards, and tables; mathematics; mechanics of rigid bodies; mechanics of deformable bodies; mechanics of incompressible fluids; aeronautics; astronautics; automatic control; computer science; engineering thermodynamics and heat transfer; electromagnetic and circuits; electronics; radiation, light, and acoustics; chemistry; engineering economics; and properties of materials. As in the previous editions, the coverage is given in capsule form to give the reader a basic understanding of the topic. References to more specific literature are also provided with each entry.

From the Publisher

The Fourth Edition is a revision of the standard, one-volume reference for engineers and students in engineering fields, especially mechanical engineering. Tapley's careful revision continues to embody the fundamental laws and theories of science basic to all disciplines of engineering practice, including electronics, controls, fluids, mathematics, etc., but now features new chapters on more contemporary issues such as computer engineering, materials, aeronautics and acoustics, among many others. Out-dated tables and materials have been deleted. The Fourth Edition retains the ``capsule'' style presentation of the earlier editions, providing readers with a basic understanding of the subject, together with guidance to more specific literature.… (altro)