,Newnes Engineering Science Pocket Book
,Newnes
Engineering
Science
Pocket Book
Third edition
John Bird
BSc(Hons), CEng, CMath, FIMA, MIEE, FCollP, FIEIE
OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON
JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI
, Newnes
An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041
A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd
First published as the Newnes Engineering & Physical Science Pocket Book 1993
Second edition 1996
Third edition as the Newnes Engineering Science Pocket Book 2001
John Bird 2001
All rights reserved. No part of this publication
may be reproduced in any material form (including
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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ISBN 0 7506 4991 7
Typeset by Laser Words, Madras, India
Printed in Great Britain
,Newnes
Engineering
Science
Pocket Book
Third edition
John Bird
BSc(Hons), CEng, CMath, FIMA, MIEE, FCollP, FIEIE
OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON
JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI
, Newnes
An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041
A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd
First published as the Newnes Engineering & Physical Science Pocket Book 1993
Second edition 1996
Third edition as the Newnes Engineering Science Pocket Book 2001
John Bird 2001
All rights reserved. No part of this publication
may be reproduced in any material form (including
photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic
means and whether or not transiently or incidentally
to some other use of this publication) without the
written permission of the copyright holder except
in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a
licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd,
90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1P 9HE.
Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission
to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed
to the publishers
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0 7506 4991 7
Typeset by Laser Words, Madras, India
Printed in Great Britain
