Materials Selection in Mechanical Design Fifth Edition describes the procedures for material selection in mechanical design in order to ensure that the most suitable materials for a given application are identified from the full range of materials & section shapes available Extensively revised for this fifth edition the book is recognized as one of the leading materials selection texts providing a unique & innovative resource for students engineers & productindustrial designers ...

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This book reviews math topics relevant to non-mathematics students & scientists but which they may not have seen or studied for a while Almost every student or scientist will at some point run into mathematical formulas or ideas in scientific papers that may be hard to understand given that formal math education may be some years ago 233 pages 55 Tables color; 70 Illustrations color; 55 Illustrations black & white; XIII 233 p Maurits Natasha ...

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This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year Ph D course in mathematics for economists & as a reference for graduate students in economics It provides a self-contained rigorous treatment of most of the concepts & techniques required to follow the standard first-year theory sequence in micro & macroeconomics The topics covered include an introduction to analysis in metric spaces differential calculus comparative statics convexity static optimization dynamical systems & dynamic optimization The book

Includes:: a large number of applications to standard economic models & over two hundred fully worked-out problems

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Now in its 7th edition Mathematical Methods for Physicists continues to provide all the mathematical methods that aspiring scientists & engineers are likely to encounter as students & beginning researchers This bestselling text provides mathematical relations & their proofs essential to the study of physics & related fields While retaining the key features of the 6th edition the new edition provides a more careful balance of explanation theory & examples Taking a problem-solving-skills approach to incorporating theorems with applications the book's enhanced focus will help students succeed throughout their academic careers & well into their professions Some notable enhancements include more refined & focused content in important topics enhanced organization updated notations extensive explanations & intuitive exercise sets a wider range of problem solutions improvement in the placement & a wider range of difficulty of exercises ...

The third edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook is suitable for teaching all the mathematics for an undergraduate course in any of the physical sciences As well as lucid descriptions of all the topics & many worked examples it contains over 800 exercises New st&-alone chapters give a systematic account of the 'special functions' of physical science cover an extended range of practical applications of complex variables & give an introduction to quantum operators Further tabulations of relevance in statistics & numerical integration have been added In this edition half of the exercises are provided with hints & answers & in a separate manual available to both students & their teachers complete worked solutions The remaining exercises have no hints answers or worked solutions & can be used for unaided homework; full solutions are available to instructors on a password-protected web site wwwcambridgeorg 9780521679718 ...