How Round Is Your Circle? : : Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet / / Chris Sangwin, John Bryant.
How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and failure. How Round Is Your Circle? invites readers to explore many of the s...
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Bryant, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut How Round Is Your Circle? : Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet / Chris Sangwin, John Bryant. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2008 1 online resource (320 p.) : 30 color illus. 60 halftones. 180 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Hard Lines -- Chapter 2. How to Draw a Straight Line -- Chapter 3. Four-Bar Variations -- Chapter 4. Building the World's First Ruler -- Chapter 5. Dividing the Circle -- Chapter 6. Falling Apart -- Chapter 7. Follow My Leader -- Chapter 8. In Pursuit of Coat-Hangers -- Chapter 9. All Approximations Are Rational -- Chapter 10. How Round Is Your Circle? -- Chapter 11. Plenty of Slide Rule -- Chapter 12. All a Matter of Balance -- Chapter 13. Finding Some Equilibrium -- Epilogue -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and failure. How Round Is Your Circle? invites readers to explore many of the same fundamental questions that working engineers deal with every day--it's challenging, hands-on, and fun. John Bryant and Chris Sangwin illustrate how physical models are created from abstract mathematical ones. Using elementary geometry and trigonometry, they guide readers through paper-and-pencil reconstructions of mathematical problems and show them how to construct actual physical models themselves--directions included. It's an effective and entertaining way to explain how applied mathematics and engineering work together to solve problems, everything from keeping a piston aligned in its cylinder to ensuring that automotive driveshafts rotate smoothly. Intriguingly, checking the roundness of a manufactured object is trickier than one might think. When does the width of a saw blade affect an engineer's calculations--or, for that matter, the width of a physical line? When does a measurement need to be exact and when will an approximation suffice? Bryant and Sangwin tackle questions like these and enliven their discussions with many fascinating highlights from engineering history. Generously illustrated, How Round Is Your Circle? reveals some of the hidden complexities in everyday things. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Circle. Engineering mathematics. Geometrical models. Geometry, Algebraic. Geometry, Plane. MATHEMATICS / Applied. bisacsh Sangwin, Chris, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691149929 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400837953 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400837953 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400837953.jpg |
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