Instructional and Educational works

Scope and Contents Document Type: Book (Technical Reference).Purpose: Authoritative Reference.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface): "This book specializing on the subject of drag, is not a theoretical textbook. The results of theoretical calculations are used, however, as a basis and as a framework, within which the various problems concerning the drag of bodies in air or in any other medium are presented. The author's objective is to present...

Scope and Contents Document Type: Book (Technical).Purpose: Authoritative reference.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface): ""To be able to effectively control noise it is necessary that the noise be measured objectively, according to more or less internationally standardized procedures, and that the measured results are evaluated against predetermined criteria for acceptance. The intention of this book is to briefly describe some of the...

Scope and Contents "Document Type: Book (Technical Reference)Purpose: Authoritative referenceAuthority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface): ""This book is dedicated to the passenger car body industry and the men of know-how, whose responsibilities are to work out the engineering and development problems and pass the information to the fabricating branches to complete the product. It contains new methods of body surface development and methods...

Scope and Contents Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface): "The following short text on Experimental Aerodynamics is written specifically to teach the uninitiated some simple, interesting, and practical methods of experimental aerodynamic technique. To accomplish this, the author has attempted to write with a minimum of academic profundity. Moreover, the fundamental data and...

Scope and Contents Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope: An introductory overview of various aircraft insturments.Contents (from Table of Contents): 1. Aircraft Instruments - Part I 2. Aircraft Instruments - Part II 3. The Turn and Bank Indicator 4. The Rate of Climb Indicator and the Altimeter 5. The Pitot-Static Tube and Airspeed Indicator 6. The Tachometer,...

Scope and Contents Document Type: Book (Technical).Purpose: Authoritative Reference.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Foreword):”... it has been possible to gather very valuable data sufficiently complete in details to enlighten those in the aircraft industry as to the reason the Fowler flaps have become so popular.I am therefore very grateful of having the privilege of examining all this data which made it possible to round out the intricate...

Scope and Contents Document Type: Book (Technical)Purpose: Authoritative Reference.Authority: Author Expertise.Series: Galcit Aeronautical SeriesScope (from Author's Preface): "The subject, Aerodynamics of Compressible Fluids, has been studied at great length by both pure mathematicians and "practical" engineers, and the literature on the subject has become extensive. The material presented in this book is designed to furnish the reader...

Scope and Contents Document Type: Book (Technical)Authority: Government CivilPurpose: Authoritative reference.Scope (from Preface): "This report is an attempt to apply engineering methods to the design of houses for strength. Fundamental data for wind, snow, and floor loads have been reviewed and convenient methods developed for computing applied loads.The engineering approach to strength of houses described in this report, it is thought, will...