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Using the Engineering Literature, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Using the Engineering Literature, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Bonnie A. Osif
August 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
600 pages
25h 45m
English
CRC Press
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Mechanical Engineering
Aleteia Greenwood and Mel DeSart
INTRODUCTION
If something moves because work (dened as force times distance) is done, chances are very good
that mechanical engineering concepts are involved. Mechanical engineering is the branch of engi-
neering that encompasses the generation and application of heat and mechanical power and the
design, production, and use of machines and tools. One of the oldest of the engineering disci-
plines, mechanical engineering concepts have been in use since prehistoric times. From the dis-
covery and use of the most basic tools (lever, wheel and axle, inclined plane (or wedge ...
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