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Pearson Electronics Fundamentals Circuits Devices
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Pearson Education Engineering Success ESource S
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Pearson Education (US) Millwright Level 3
Book SynopsisTable of Contents(Total Level Hours: 160) 15301-08 Advanced Trade Math (20 Hours) Explains right triangle trigonometry and its use in the trade. Also covers interpolation, equilateral and isosceles triangles and the laws of acute triangles. 15302-08 Precision Measuring Tools (20 Hours) Explains how to select, inspect, use and care for levels, calipers, micrometers, height gauges and surface plates, dial indicators, protractors, parallels and gauge blocks, trammels, and pyrometers. 15303-08 Installing Packing (10 Hours) Explains the types of packing and packing materials found in a typical stuffing box. Covers how to remove packing and how to install compression packing and lip-type packing. 15304-08 Installing Seals (5 Hours) Covers the applications, removal, and installation procedures for dynamic and static seals, and lip, cup, oil, and labyrinth seals. 15305-08 Installing Mechanical Seals (20 Hours) Covers function and advantages of mechanical seals, identifies parts and types of seals, and includes procedures for removing, inspecting, and installing mechanical seals. 15306-08 Removing and Installing Bearings (20 Hours) Explains how to remove, troubleshoot, and install tapered, thrust, spherical roller, pillow block, and angular contact ball bearings. 15307-08 Couplings (15 Hours) Identifies various types of couplings and covers installation procedures using the press-fit method and the interference-fit method. Also covers coupling removal procedures. 15308-08 Fabricating Shims (5 Hours) Describes types of shim stock and materials and explains the procedures for fabricating shims. 15309-08 Alignment Fixtures and Specialty Jigs (10 Hours) Explains the applications and fabrication procedures for angle iron, chain, complex reverse-indicator, Christmas tree, and piano wire jigs. 15310-08 Prealignment for Equipment Installation (15 Hours) Explains how to level equipment using jack bolts, wedges, and shims. Covers precision leveling procedures and performing clearance installation. Also describes basic steps for setting motors and pumps. 15311-08 Installing Belt and Chain Drives (10 Hours) Covers the sizes, uses, and installation procedures of six types of drive belts and two types of chain drives. 15312-08 Installing Fans and Blowers (10 Hours) Identifies and explains how to install axial-flow fans, centrifugal fans, and roots-type and screw-type blowers.
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Pearson Education Microcontroller Theory and Applications HC12 and
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Pearson Education Modern Control Engineering
Book SynopsisDr. Katsuhiko Ogata graduated from the University of Tokyo (BS), earned an MS degree from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota.Table of ContentsContents Preface Chapter 1 Introduction to Control Systems 1–1 Introduction 1–2 Examples of Control Systems 1–3 Closed-Loop Control versus Open-Loop Control 1–4 Outline of the Book Chapter 2 Mathematical Modeling of Control Systems 2–1 Introduction 2–2 Transfer Function and impulse Response Function 2–3 Atomatic Control Systems 2–4 Modeling in state space 2–5 State-Space Representation of Scalar Differential Equation System 2–6 Transformation of Mathematical models with MATLAB 2–7 Linearization of Nonlinear Mathematical Models Example Problems and Solutions Problems Chapter 3 Mathematical Modeling of Mechanical Systems and Electrical Systems 3–1 Introduction 3–2 Mathematical Modeling of Mechanical Systems 3–3 Mathematical Modeling of Electrical Systems Example Problems and Solutions Problems Chapter 4 Mathematical Modeling of Fluid Systems and Thermal Systems 4–1 Introduction 4–2 Liquid-Level Systems 4–3 Pneumatic Systems 4–4 Hydraulic Systems 4–5 Thermal Systems Example Problems and Solutions Problems Chapter 5 Transient and Steady-State Response Analyses 5–1 Introduction 5–2 First-Order Systems 5–3 Second-Order Systems 5–4 Higher Order Systems 5–5 Transient-Response Analysis with MATLAB 5–6 Routh's Stability Criterion 5–7 Effects of Integral and Derivative Control Actions on System Performance 5–8 Steady-State Errors in Unity-Feedback Control Systems Example Problems and Solutions Problems Chapter 6 Control Systems Analysis and design by the Root-Locus Method 6–1 Introduction 6–2 Root-Locus Plots 6–3 plotting Root Loci with MATLAB 6–4 Root-Locus Plots of Positive Feedback Systems 6–5 Root-Locus Approach to control Systems Design 6–6 Lead Compensation 6–7 Lag Compensation 6–8 Lag-Lead Compensation Example Problems and Solutions Problems Chapter 7 Control Systems Analysis and Design by the Frequency Response Method 7–1 Introduction 7–2 Bode Digrams 7–3 Polar Plots 7–4 Log-Magnitude-versus-Phase plots 7–5 Nyquist Stability Criterion 7–6 Stability Analysis 7–7 Relative Stability Analysis 7–8 Closed-Loop Frequency Response of Unity-feedback Systems 7–9 Experimental Determination of Transfer functions 7–10 Control Systems design by Frequency Response Approach 7–11 Lead Compensation 7–12 Lag Compensation 7–13 Lag-Lead Compensation Example Problems and Solutions Problems Chapter 8 PID Controllers and Modified PID Controllers 8–1 Introduction 8–2 Ziegler- Nichols Rules for tuning PID controllers 8–3 Design of PID Controllers with Frequency Response Approach 8–4 Design of PID Controllers with Computational Optimization Approach 8–5 Modification of PID Control Schemes 8–6 Two-Degrees-of-freedom PID Control Schemes 8–7 Zero Placement Approach to Improve Response Example Problems and Solutions Problems Chapter 9 Control Systems Analysis in State Space 9–1 Introduction 9–2 State-space Representations of Transfer-Function Systems 9–3 Transformation of System Models with MATLAB 9–4 Solving the Time-Invariant State Equation 9–5 Some Useful Results in vector-Matrix Analysis 9–6 Controllability 9–7 Observability Example Problems and Solutions Problems Chapter 10 Control Systems Design of in State Space 10–1 Introduction 10–2 Pole Placement 10–3 Solving Pole-Placement Problems with MATLAB 10–4 Design of Servo Systems 10–5 State Observers 10–6 Design of Regulator Systems with Observers 10–7 Design of Control Systems with Observers 10–8 Quadratic Optimal Regulator Systems 10–9 Robust Control Solutions Example Problems and Solutions Problems Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C References Index
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Pearson Education (US) Engineering Drawing Problem Series 1
Book Synopsis The first set of worksheets to accompany the Giesecke series. This book will feature "traditional" problems, emphasize hand drawing, and not contain descriptive geometry.
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Pearson Machine Design An Integrated Approach Modified
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Pearson Education (US) AutoCAD for Interior Design and Space Planning
Book Synopsis BEVERLY KIRKPATRICK has worked with AutoCAD for 30+ years, developing interior designs, space plans, and finish schedules for schools, banks, hospitals, churches, and car dealerships. She taught AutoCAD at college and high school levels. JAMES KIRKPATRICK worked with and taught AutoCAD for 40+ years, established Eastfield College's AutoCAD Training Center, and authored 30+ books in the field. HOSSEIN ASSADIPOUR teaches CAD, CNC, CAM, and related topics, and wrote Learning AutoCAD in 20 Projects. He is professor of Division of Mathematics, Engineering Technologies & Computer Sciences at Essex County College. DAVID BYRNES spent 38 years in design, drafting, and 3D modeling, working with AutoCAD since v. 1.4. A CAD consultant, instructor, and author since 1988, he contributed to CadalystTable of ContentsPART I: PREPARING TO DRAW WITH AUTOCAD Chapter 1 Introducing the AutoCAD User Interface 1 Chapter Objectives 1 Introduction 1 Exercise 1-1 Examine the AutoCAD User Interface and Save a Workspace 2 Drawing Window and Graphics Cursor 4 Application Menu Button 7 Inputting or Selecting a Command 8 Ribbon 8 Expanded Panels 9 Dialog Boxes and Palettes 9 Tooltips 10 Flyouts 10 Command Line Window (+9) 11 Quick Access Toolbar 11 Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar Down Arrow and Showing the Menu Bar 12 Using AutoCAD Toolbars 13 User Coordinate System Icon 14 Advantage of Using the UCS 14 Viewport Label Menus 14 ViewCube 16 Navigation Bar 17 Infocenter 18 Status Bar 18 Drawing Coordinates Values (+I) 18 Model or Paper Space 21 Quick View Tools 21 Annotation Scaling Tools 21 Workspace Switching 22 Lock/Unlock Toolbar and Window Positions 22 On/Off Hardware Acceleration 22 Clean Screen (+0 [Zero]) 22 Modifying and Saving a Workspace 22 Getting Help in AutoCAD 2022 24 Closing AutoCAD 25 Chapter Summary 26 Chapter Test Questions 26 PART II: TWO-DIMENSIONAL AUTOCAD Chapter 2 Quick-Start Tutorials: Basic Settings and Commands 29 Chapter Objectives 29 Introduction 29 Following the Tutorials in This Book 30 Tutorial 2-1 Part 1, Beginning an AutoCAD Drawing: Saving Your Work; Setting Units, Limits, Grid, and Snap; Creating Layers 31 Beginning an AutoCAD Drawing 31 Saving the Drawing 32 Save 32 Save As 32 DWT 34 DWS 34 DXF 34 Drawing Name and File Name Extension 35 Units 36 Controlling Your Drawing 36 Drawing Scale 37 Drawing Limits and the Cartesian Coordinate System 37 Grid 38 GRIDDISPLAY 38 Snap 40 Zoom 41 Drafting Settings Dialog Box 41 Layers 42 Layer Lists 44 Linetypes 46 Lineweights 46 Lineweight Settings Dialog Box 46 Lineweight Display 48 Setting the Annotation Scale 50 Saving the Drawing 50 Using the Mouse and Right-Click Customization 51 Tutorial 2-1 Part 2, Drawing Lines, Circles, Arcs, Ellipses, and Donuts 52 Ortho 52 Drawing Lines Using the Grid Marks and Snap Increments 53 Erase and Undo 54 Drawing Lines Using Absolute Coordinates 56 Drawing Lines Using Relative Coordinates 57 Drawing Lines Using Polar Coordinates 58 Drawing Lines Using Direct Distance Entry 59 DYNMODE 59 Circle 60 Center, Radius 61 Center, Diameter 62 2 Points 62 3 Points 63 TTR 63 LTSCALE 63 ZOOM 64 Zoom-Window 64 Zoom-All 65 Zoom-Previous 65 Zoom-Extents 66 Zoom-Object 66 Zoom-Realtime 66 PAN REALTIME 66 Transparent Commands 66 REDRAW 67 REGEN 67 HIGHLIGHT 67 Move and Editing Commands Selection Set 67 Options for Selecting Objects to Modify 70 Window (W) and Crossing Window (C) 71 All (ALL) 71 Fence (F) 71 Remove (R) and Add (A) 71 Last (L) and Previous (P) 71 Undo (U) 72 Grips 72 UNDO and REDO 73 ARC 74 3-Point 74 Start, Center, End 76 Start, Center, Angle 76 Start, Center, Length 76 Start, End, Angle 77 Start, End, Direction 77 Start, End, Radius 77 Continue 77 ELLIPSE 77 Axis, End 77 Center 79 DONUT 79 SCALE 80 Reference 80 Adding Text 82 Command History 82 Tutorial 2-2 Plot Responses for CH2-TUTORIAL1, Using the Model Tab 83 Plot - Name 84 Page Setup 84 Printer/Plotter 84 Plot to File 85 Browse for Plot File 85 Plot Style Table (Pen Assignments) 85 Paper Size 86 Plot Area 87 Plot Scale 87 Annotative Property and Annotation Scale 88 Plot Offset (Origin Set to Printable Area) 89 Shaded Viewport Options 89 Plot Options 89 Drawing Orientation 90 Preview… 90 Chapter Summary 92 Chapter Test Questions 92 Chapter Projects 95 Chapter 3 Drawing with AutoCAD: Conference and Lecture Rooms 103 Chapter Objectives 103 Exercise 3-1 Drawing a Rectangular Conference Room, Including Furniture 103 Making a Drawing Template 105 Polyline 107 Undo 108 OFFSET 108 Through 109 Erase 109 Layer 109 EXPLODE 109 ID Point 109 TRIM 111 Rectangle 111 CHAMFER 114 Polyline 114 Undo 114 Angle 115 Trim 115 mEthod 115 Multiple 115 FILLET 116 COPY and Osnap-Midpoint 117 ROTATE 118 Reference 119 POINT 119 DIVIDE 120 MEASURE 121 OSNAP 122 Activating Osnap 122 Copy, Osnap-Midpoint, Osnap-Node 123 MIRROR 124 Osnap Modes That Snap to Specific Drawing Features 127 Exercise 3-2 Drawing a Rectangular Lecture Room, Including Furniture 130 Running Osnap Modes 129 Osnap Settings: Marker, Aperture, Magnet, Tooltip 130 Making Solid Walls Using Polyline and Solid Hatch 132 From 133 BREAK 133 First 134 @ 134 Polyline Edit 134 HATCH 136 ARRAY 138 Rectangular 140 Path 141 ARRAYEDIT 141 Distance 141 Exercise 3-3 Drawing a Curved Conference Room, Including Furniture 144 Polyline 145 Width 146 Half Width 146 Length 147 Close 147 POLYGON 148 Edge 149 Grips—Add Vertex 149 Grips—Convert to Arc 151 ARRAY 152 Polar 152 Exercise 3-4 Drawing a Conference Room Using Polar Tracking 155 Polar Tracking 157 Polyline Edit 159 Specifying Points with Tracking 160 Drawing the Chairs around the Conference Table 162 Completing the Conference Room 164 Using Command Preview 165 Choosing Selection Options 166 Chapter Summary 167 Chapter Test Questions 167 Chapter Projects 170 Chapter 4 Adding Text and Tables to the Drawing 183 Chapter Objectives 183 Exercise 4-1 Placing Text on Drawings 183 Making Settings for Text Style 185 Style Name 185 Font Name 185 Making a New Text Style 186 Using the Single Line Text Command to Draw Text 189 Setting the Justify Option 191 Using Standard Codes to Draw Special Characters 192 Using the Multiline Text Command to Draw Text Paragraphs in Columns 195 Changing Text Properties 198 Checking the Spelling 202 Exercise 4-2 Using the TABLE Command to Create a Door Schedule 203 Exercise 4-3 Using the TABLE Command to Create a Window Schedule 214 Chapter Summary 215 Chapter Test Questions 215 Chapter Projects 218 Chapter 5 Advanced Plotting: Using Plot Styles, Paper Space, Multiple Viewports, and PDF Files 223 Chapter Objectives 223 Understanding Layer Names, Colors, and Lineweights 223 Choosing a Plot Style 224 Named Plot Style (STB) 225 Color-Dependent Plot Style (CTB) 226 Exercise 5-1 Make a Color-Dependent Plot Style to Change Colors to Plot Black 226 Exercise 5-2 Plot a Layout with One Viewport 228 Model, Layout1, and Layout2 Tabs 229 Page Setup Manager 229 Center and Scale the Plan 230 Complete the Layout 232 Exercise 5-3 Plot a Layout with Two Viewports 233 Insert an Entire Drawing into a Current Drawing 233 Page Setup Manager 236 Copy a Viewport 237 Center and Scale the Plans 237 Complete the Layout 239 Exercise 5-4 Plot a Layout with Four Viewports 241 Viewports (VPORTS) 242 Use MVIEW to Restore the Viewport VP4 into Layout1 244 Page Setup Manager 245 Center and Scale the Plans 246 Complete the Layout 246 Exercise 5-5 Make PDF Files That Can Be Attached to E-mails and Opened without the AutoCAD Program 247 Chapter Summary 250 Chapter Test Questions 250 Chapter Projects 253 Chapter 6 Drawing the Floor Plan: Walls, Doors, and Windows 255 Chapter Objectives 255 The Tenant Space Project 255 Exercise 6-1 Tenant Space Floor Plan 256 RECTANGLE 257 HATCH 258 ARRAY 258 Multiline Style 260 Multiline Command 262 Edit Multiline Command 268 EXTEND 269 PROPERTIES 269 LIST 270 COLOR 270 Linetype 272 Lineweight 272 Make Object's Layer Current 272 Match Properties 272 Block 273 Wblock 276 Insert 278 Insertion Point 281 X Scale Factor, Y Scale Factor 281 Using Annotative Text 282 Inserting Entire Drawings as Blocks 284 Advantages of Using Blocks 284 Exercise 6-2 Hotel Room 1 Floor Plan 285 AutoCAD DesignCenter 287 Chapter Summary 291 Chapter Test Questions 291 Chapter Projects 294 Chapter 7 Dimensioning and Area Calculations 297 Chapter Objectives 297 Eight Basic Types of Dimensions 297 Using Dimension Variables 298 Exercise 7-1 Dimensioning the Tenant Space Floor Plan Using Linear Dimensions 301 Setting the Dimension Variables Using the Command Prompt 303 Setting the Dimension Variables Using the Dimension Style Manager Dialog Box 304 Using the Fit Tab to Scale for Dimension Features 309 Annotative 309 Scale Dimensions to Layout 310 Use Overall Scale of: (DIMSCALE) 310 Linear and Continue Dimensioning 311 Aligned Dimensioning 315 Baseline Dimensioning 315 Adding a Dimension Break 318 Using Adjust Space 318 Exercise 7-2 Revisions and Modifying Dimensions 319 Setting the DIMASSOC Dimension Variable 319 Understanding Associative Dimension Commands 321 Oblique 321 Align Text (Home-Angle-Left-Center-Right) 322 Override 322 Update 322 Defpoints Layer 322 Using the PROPERTIES Palette 323 Accessing Match Properties 323 Using Grips 323 Drawing a Revision Cloud 324 Exercise 7-3 Tenant Space Total Square Footage 326 Defining the Area for Square Footage 326 Using the Cal Calculator 329 Chapter Summary 331 Chapter Test Questions 331 Chapter Projects 334 Chapter 8 Drawing Elevations, Sections, and Details 337 Chapter Objectives 337 Introduction 337 Exercise 8-1 Tenant Space: Elevation of Conference Room Cabinets 337 UCS 339 UCS Icon 340 Draw the Upper Cabinets 341 Mirror 342 Draw the Lower Cabinets 344 Stretch 345 Complete the Drawing 354 Circles to Be Used with Multileaders 357 Exercise 8-2 The Multileader Command 357 Multileader Standard Style 357 Multileader 360 Multileader Align 362 Change Multileader Style 362 Multileader Collect 366 Multileader Add 367 Exercise 8-3 Tenant Space: Section of Conference Room Cabinets with Hatching 368 Prepare to Use the Hatch Command with the Add: Select Objects Boundary Option 371 Use the Hatch Command with the Add: Select Objects Boundary Option 372 Use the Hatch Command with the Add: Pick Points Boundary Option 373 Hatch; Hatch and Gradient Dialog Box; Hatch Tab 376 Type and Pattern 376 Angle and Scale 377 Hatch Origin 378 Boundaries 378 Options 378 More Options 379 Islands 380 Boundary Retention 380 Boundary Set 380 Gap Tolerance 380 Inherit Options 380 Edit Hatch 381 Exercise 8-4 Detail of Door Jamb with Hatching 385 Exercise 8-5 Use Point Filters and Object Snap Tracking to Make an Orthographic Drawing of a Conference Table 386 Point Filters 388 Object Snap Tracking 389 Chapter Summary 393 Chapter Test Questions 393 Chapter Projects 396 Chapter 9 Drawing the Furniture Installation Plan, Adding Specifications, and Extracting Data 401 Chapter Objectives 401 Introduction 401 Exercise 9-1 Tenant Space Furniture Installation Plan with Furniture Specifications 402 Draw the Furniture Symbols 403 Define Attributes (ATTDEF) 403 Constant Attribute 408 Variable Attribute 410 Verify Attribute 412 Edit Text (TEXTEDIT) 413 QP (Quick Properties) 414 Properties Palette 414 WBLOCK the Furniture with Attributes Symbol 414 Insert the Furniture Symbols with Attributes into the Drawing 416 Complete the Tenant Space Furniture Installation Plan 418 Edit Attribute, Single 418 Edit Attribute, Global 420 Attribute Display (ATTDISP) 422 Redefining an Inserted Block with Attributes Using the BLOCK Command 422 Block Attribute Manager (BATTMAN) 423 Synchronize Attributes (ATTSYNC) 423 Exercise 9-2 Extracting Attributes from the Tenant Space Furniture Installation Plan 424 Data Extraction… 425 Chapter Summary 430 Chapter Test Questions 430 Chapter Projects 432 Chapter 10 DesignCenter, Dynamic Blocks, and External References 435 Chapter Objectives 435 Introduction 435 Exercise 10-1 Reception Area Furniture Installation Plan Using the DesignCenter 435 The DesignCenter 436 DesignCenter Tabs 436 DesignCenter Buttons 437 Exercise 10-2 Training Room Furniture Installation Plan Using DesignCenter and Dynamic Blocks 440 Use Block Editor to Make Dynamic Blocks 445 Exercise 10-3 Attach an External Reference to an Office Plan 456 XATTACH (Attach External Reference) 456 External Reference (XREF) 457 XBIND 457 Features of External References 457 Chapter Summary 463 Chapter Test Questions 463 Chapter Projects 465 Chapter 11 Drawing the Reflected Ceiling Plan and Voice/Data/Power Plan 471 Chapter Objectives 471 Introduction 471 Exercise 11-1 Part 1, Tenant Space Lighting Legend and Reflected Ceiling Plan 471 Tenant Space Lighting Legend Symbols 473 Tenant Space Reflected Ceiling Plan 473 Exercise 11-1 Part 2, Tenant Space Voice/Data/Power Legend and Plan 474 Tenant Space Voice/Data/Power Legend Symbols 474 Tenant Space Voice/Data/Power Plan 476 Chapter Summary 478 Chapter Test Questions 478 Chapter Projects 480 Chapter 12 Creating Presentations with Layouts and Making a Sheet Set 485 Chapter Objectives 485 Exercise 12-1 Make a Printed Presentation of the Tenant Space Project by Combining Multiple Plans on One Sheet of Paper 485 Use Create Layout Wizard to Set Up Four Viewports on a Single Sheet 486 Complete the Title Block 487 Use Layer Properties Manager to Freeze Viewport Layers 490 Scale and Center the Plans 492 Using MVSETUP to Align the Plans 492 Complete the Presentation 494 Exercise 12-2 Making a Four-Sheet Presentation of the Tenant Space Project Using a Sheet Set 495 Make New Layout Tabs and Rename the New Layout Tabs 496 Prepare the Layout Tabs for Plotting Drawings 496 Use MVSETUP to Insert a Title Block 498 Quick View Tools 500 New Sheet Set and Sheet Set Manager 501 Chapter Summary 504 Chapter Test Questions 504 Chapter Project 507 Chapter 13 Isometric Drawing and Gradient Hatch Rendering 509 Chapter Objectives 509 Axonometric Drawing 509 Isometric Drawing 509 Exercise 13-1 Fundamentals of Isometric Drawing 510 Drafting Settings Dialog Box 512 Shape 1: Drawing the Isometric Rectangle 512 Shape 2: Drawing Isometric Ellipses 513 Shape 3: Drawing a Chair with Ellipses That Show the Thickness of a Material 515 Shape 4: Drawing a Shape That Has a Series of Isometric Ellipses Located on the Same Centerline 518 Shape 5: Isometric Detail with Rounded Corners 520 Shape 6: A TV Shape with an Angled Back 521 Shape 7: Isometric Detail: A Hexagonal-Shaped Vase 524 Exercise 13-2 Tenant Space Reception Desk in Isometric 525 Dimensioning in Isometric 532 Gradient Hatch 532 Exercise 13-3 Using Gradient Patterns to Render the Shapes of Exercise 13-1 533 Chapter Summary 540 Chapter Test Questions 540 Chapter Projects 543 PART III: THREE-DIMENSIONAL AUTOCAD Chapter 14 Solid Modeling 547 Chapter Objectives 547 Introduction 547 Creating Primitive Shapes with Solid Commands 548 Creating Composite Solids with Solid Commands 548 Editing Solids with Solid Commands 548 Controlling UCS in Three Dimensions 549 Dynamic UCS 549 Viewing Solids 549 3D Views Menu Options 549 SteeringWheels 551 ViewCube 552 Editing Solids with Other Commands 552 Controlling Solids Display 552 Exercise 14-1 Part 1, Drawing Primitive Solids 553 Box 555 Sphere 555 Wedge 556 Cone 556 Cylinder 557 Torus 557 Exercise 14-1 Part 2, Using Extrude to Draw Extruded Solids 558 Drawing an Extruded Circle 558 Drawing an Extruded Polygon 558 Drawing an Extruded Rectangle 559 Drawing an Extruded Structural Angle 560 Drawing an Extruded Shape 561 Exercise 14-1 Part 3, Using REVOLVE to Draw Revolved Solids; Using 3DROTATE to Rotate Solids about the X-, Y-, and Z-Axes 562 Drawing Revolved Shape 1 562 Drawing a Revolved Rectangle 564 Drawing a Revolved Paper Clip Holder 565 Using 3dROTATE 565 Exercise 14-1 Part 4, Using CHAMFER and FILLET to Form Chamfers and Fillets on Solid Edges 566 Chamfering and Filleting the Top Four Edges of Two Separate Boxes 566 Chamfering and Filleting the Top Edge of Two Separate Cylinders 567 Exercise 14-1 Part 5, Using UNION to Join Two Solids; Using SUBTRACT to Subtract Solids from Other Solids 568 Drawing Solid Shape 1 568 Drawing Solid Shape 2 569 Joining with Union 570 Using Subtract 570 Performing a Hide 571 Exercise 14-1 Part 6, Using Sweep, Helix, Subtract, Loft, Planar Surface, Thicken, and Polysolid to Draw Solid Shapes 571 Sweeping an Object 571 Using Loft 574 Creating a Bowl-Shaped Object 575 Using Planar Surface 575 Using POLYSOLID 576 Exercise 14-1 Part 7, Using Intersection to Form a Solid Model from the Common Volume of Two Intersecting Solids 577 Drawing Two Extruded Shapes at Right Angles to Each Other 578 Using Intersect 579 Wblocking the Intersected Model 580 Completing Exercise 14-1 581 Chapter Summary 583 Chapter Test Questions 583 Chapter Projects 586 Chapter 15 Advanced Modeling 593 Chapter Objectives 593 Introduction 593 Exercise 15-1 Creating a Solid Model of Chair 2 594 Exercise 15-2 Creating a Solid Model of a Patio 597 RENDER 608 Render Quality 608 Destinations 608 Lights 608 Materials 609 Other Commands Available to Render, Animate, Attach Scanned Files, and Shade 3D Models 609 Exercise 15-3 Use Render Commands to Make a Photo-Realistic Rendering of the Solid Model in Exercise 15-2 610 Exercise 15-4 Create a Walk-Through AVI File for the Rendered 3D Patio 621 Chapter Summary 627 Chapter Test Questions 627 Chapter Projects 630 PART IV: APPENDIXES Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts 633 Appendix B Shortcut and Temporary Override Keys 641 Glossary 643 Index 647
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Pearson Education (US) Process Operations
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to Operations Chapter 2: Procedure Writing Chapter 3: Reading Process Drawings Chapter 4: Complying with Safety, Health, & Environmental Policies Chapter 5: Communication: Verbal, Non-Verbal, and Written Chapter 6: Shift Change/Relief Chapter 7: Abnormal and Emergency Operations Chapter 8: On-the-Job Training Chapter 9: Maintenance Chapter 10: Unit Commissioning Chapter 11: Unit Start-Up Chapter 12: Lock-out/Tag-out Chapter 13: Utility and Auxiliary Systems Chapter 14: Process Technician Routine Duties: Normal Operations Chapter 15: Sampling Chapter 16: Unit Shut-Down
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Pearson Education Carpentry
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Pearson Education (US) Surveying
Book SynopsisTable of Contents PART I. SURVEYING PRINCIPLES 1. Basics of Surveying 2. Leveling 3. Distance Measurement 4. Angles and Directions 5. Total Stations and Theodolites 6. Traverse Surveys and Computations 7. Satellite Positioning Systems 8. Topographic Surveying and Mapping 9. Geographic Information Systems 10. Control Surveys PART II. REMOTE SENSING 11. Satellite Imagery 12. Airborne Imagery PART III. SURVEYING APPLICATIONS 13. Engineering Surveys 14. Land Surveys PART IV. APPENDICES Appendix A. Random Errors Appendix B. Trigonometric Definitions and Identities Appendix C. Glossary Appendix D. Answers to Selected Chapter Problems Appendix E. Internet Websites Appendix F. Examples of Current Geomatics Technology Appendix G. Typical Field Projects Appendix H. Early Surveying Index Field Note Index
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Pearson Education (US) Petroleum Production Systems
Book SynopsisMichael J. Economides is professor of engineering at the University of Houston. His work focuses on optimizing hydrocarbon production from reservoir to market. A leading energy analyst, he is editor-in-chief of Energy Tribune and the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. A. Daniel Hill is professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University, holds the R.L. Whiting endowed chair, and is a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). Christine Ehlig-Economides is professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University and holds the A.B. Stevens endowed chair. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Ding Zhu, is associate professor in the Harold Vance Department Table of Contents Foreword Preface About the Authors Chapter 1: The Role of Petroleum Production Engineering Chapter 2: Production from Undersaturated Oil Reservoirs Chapter 3: Production from Two-Phase Reservoirs Chapter 4: Production from Natural Gas Reservoirs Chapter 5: Production from Horizontal Wells Chapter 6: The Near-Wellbore Condition and Damage Characterization; Skin Effects Chapter 7: Wellbore Flow Performance Chapter 8: Flow in Horizontal Wellbores, Wellheads, and Gathering Systems Chapter 9: Well Deliverability Chapter 10: Forecast of Well Production Chapter 11: Gas Lift Chapter 12: Pump-Assisted Lift Chapter 13: Well Performance Evaluation Chapter 14: Matrix Acidizing: Acid/Rock Interactions Chapter 15: Sandstone Acidizing Design Chapter 16: Carbonate Acidizing Design Chapter 17: Hydraulic Fracturing for Well Stimulation Chapter 18: The Design and Execution of Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments Chapter 19: Sand Management Appendix A: Appendix B: Appendix C: Index
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Pearson Education (US) Polymer Science and Technology
Book SynopsisDr. Joel R. Fried is professor and chair of the department of chemical and biomedical engineering at Florida State University. Previously, he was professor and the Wright Brothers Endowed Chair in Nanomaterials at the University of Dayton. He is also professor emeritus of chemical engineering and fellow of the graduate school at the University of Cincinnati, where he directed the Polymer Research Center and led the department of chemical engineering. He holds B.S. degrees in biology and chemical engineering, and an M.E. degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in polymer science and engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Polymer Science Chapter 2: Polymer Synthesis Chapter 3: Conformation, Solutions, and Molecular Weight Chapter 4: Solid-State Properties Chapter 5: Viscoelasticity and Rubber Elasticity Chapter 6: Polymer Degradation and the Environment Chapter 7: Additives, Blends, Block Copolymers, and Composites Chapter 8: Biopolymers, Natural Polymers, and Fibers Chapter 9: Thermoplastics, Elastomers, and Thermosets Chapter 10: Engineering and Specialty Polymers Chapter 11: Polymer Processing and Rheology Chapter 12: Polymers for Advanced Technologies Chapter 13: Correlations and Simulations in Polymer Science Appendix A: Polymer Abbreviations Appendix B Representative Properties of Some Important Commercial Polymers Appendix C ASTM Standards for Plastics and Rubber Appendix D SI Units and Physical Constants Appendix E Mathematical Relationships Appendix F The Major Elements
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Pearson Education (US) Network Architects Guide to 5G A
Book SynopsisSyed Farrukh Hassan has been designing and deploying networks for over 20 years. In his current role as principal telecommunications architect at Red Hat, Syed provides consultancy services to global 5G customers. Prior to that, Syed worked as a senior solutions architect in the Cisco professional and consulting services organization, providing guidance, strategy, and planning support to various Internet, cloud, and mobile service providers in their adoption of innovating networking technologies and transformation of their networks to new architectures. Syed co-authored one of the first books on NFV and SDN, has been a regular speaker in public forums and conferences, and is recognized as a Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker. Syed is a double CCIE in Service Provider and Data Center technologies (#21617), Google Certified Professional Cloud Networking Engineer, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from NED UniversitTable of ContentsIntroduction xx Chapter 1: A Peek at the Past 2 Brief History of Pre-Cellular Mobile Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The Very First Cellular Networks: 1G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Second Generation (2G) Cellular Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Generation Two and a Half (2.5G). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Third Generation (3G).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Chapter 2: Anatomy of Mobile Communication Networks 28 Understanding Radio Access Network.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Mobile Transport and Backhaul.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Mobile Core Concepts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Chapter 3: Mobile Networks Today 76 3GPP Releases and Evolved Packet System.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Evolved Packet Core (EPC) Architecture.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 RAN Evolution.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Modern Mobile Backhaul Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Chapter 4: The Promise of 5G 120 Emerging Trends and Expectations from Mobile Networks.. . . . . . . . . . 121 5G Technology Enablers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 5G Service Offerings.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Chapter 5: 5G Fundamentals 138 5G Radio Access Network.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 5G Core Network.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 5G Transport Network.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Chapter 6: Emerging Technologies for 5G-Ready Networks: Segment Routing 212 Complexity in Today’s Network.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Introducing Segment Routing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Software-Defined Transport with Segment Routing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 5G Transport Network Slicing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Redundancy and High Availability with Segment Routing.. . . . . . . . . . . 238 Segment Routing for IPv6 (SRv6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Chapter 7: Essential Technologies for 5G-Ready Networks: DC Architecture and Edge Computing 250 Data Center Basics.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 From Centralized to Distributed to Cloud Data Centers. . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Deploying Data Centers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Optimizing Compute Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Chapter 8: Essential Technologies for 5G-Ready Networks: Transport Services 274 What’s a 5G Transport Service?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 VPN Services.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Transport Services Across MCN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Chapter 9: Essential Technologies for 5G-Ready Networks: Timing and Synchronization 302 Types of Synchronization.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Why Synchronization Is Important in 5G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 Synchronization Sources and Clock Types.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Implementing Timing in Mobile Networks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 Chapter 10: Designing and Implementing 5G Network Architecture 334 5G Architecture Recap.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 5G Fronthaul Considerations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 xHaul Transport Technology Choices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Designing the Mobile Transport Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 Routing Design Simplification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 Transport Services for 5G MCN.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Taking MCN to the Cloud.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 Automation in 5G Networks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 Deciphering 5G Mobile Requirements.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 Afterword: Beyond 5G 386 9780137376841, TOC, 4/14/2022
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Pearson Education (US) Establishing SRE Foundations
Book SynopsisDr. Vladyslav Ukis is head of R&D for the Siemens Healthineers teamplay digital health platform and reliability lead for all Siemens Healthineers Digital Health products. Previously, as software development lead, he drove Continuous Delivery, SRE, and DevRel transformation, helping this large distributed development organization evolve architecture, deployment, testing, operations, and culture to implement these new processes at scale.Trade Review"Many enterprises today face the challenge of establishing modern operations for their SaaS offerings. This book provides a proven step-by-step guide for how this can be done from scratch using Google's SRE methodology. From achieving organizational buy-in to laying down the basic SRE foundations, establishing incident response and implementing a suitable organizational structure--the book contains a wealth of advice for development, operations, and leadership teams!"--Dr. Peter Schardt, Chief Technology Officer at Siemens Healthcare GmbH "Establishing SRE Foundations is a great introductory guide for anyone new to understanding and implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in their organization. Vlad creates a solid platform for anyone wishing to understand the SRE approach to building reliability into software services. As well as practical advice on implementing techniques such as SLIs and SLOs, Vlad goes into detail on how to achieve buy-in for SRE adoption and how to modify your organizational setup, rooted in his own experiences of working in a large organization. Those experiences are sorely lacking elsewhere in SRE literature, and when I'm asked in the future about SRE, I'll be referring people to this excellent book."--Steve Smith, author of Measuring Continuous Delivery (2020) "I very much enjoyed reading this book, even in its early forms. Vlad treats the topic of SRE methodically and in great detail; if you have ever been wondering whether or not someone else has come across your particular issue in an SRE implementation, this book can answer that question and probably has an actionable solution as well. Destined to become a constantly referenced handbook by all those involved in SRE change projects."--Niall Murphy, co-author of Site Reliability Engineering (2016) and The Site Reliability Handbook (2018) "There are an overwhelming number of blogs, books, podcasts, and ad hoc opinions covering the nitty-gritty of SRE toolchains and technology choices. That being said, SRE initiatives rarely fail for technological reasons--they fail for structural or organizational reasons. In Establishing SRE Foundations, Dr. Ukis has given us all a detailed, accessible, and actionable blueprint for the structures and practices of a successful SRE organization. It is an excellent book and one I would recommend to anyone looking to establish a scaled-out SRE practice in a complex environment."--Ben Sigelman, co-founder of Lightstep "Establishing SRE Foundations provides far and away the clearest, most comprehensive, and most actionable roadmap I have seen for driving, scaling, and sustaining SRE in an engineering organization. I cannot recommend it highly enough!"--Randy Shoup, eBay Chief Architect and former Google Engineering leader "Establishing SRE Foundations is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to take their software operations to the next level. If you are a beginner, you will learn why SRE is a great methodology for improving operations, what the challenges of introducing SRE are, how to achieve organizational buyin for SRE, how to lay the foundation for SRE in your teams, and how to drive continuous improvement. If you are an experienced practitioner, you will learn how to set up an error budget policy, enable error budget–based decision-making, and implement a suitable organizational structure. I think the content of the book is spot on and highly recommend it!"--Vitor dos Reis, Director of Software Engineering at Delivery Hero "Vlad offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of the transformation to SRE. He covers assessment, organizational structures, technical implementation, communication, and continuation. This book is a clear roadmap for any organization starting or progressing their SRE journey, replete with what to consider, options available, and real-world examples. If you are thinking about starting the SRE journey, have found yourself stalled along the way, or are looking for more ideas to help you continue the journey successfully, then buy this book."--Doc Norton, Change Catalyst, OnBelay ConsultingTable of ContentsForeword xxiPreface xxvAcknowledgments xxixAbout the Author xxxiii Part I: Foundations 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to SRE 31.1 Why SRE? 31.2 Alignment Using SRE 131.3 Why Does SRE Work? 171.4 Summary 19 Chapter 2: The Challenge 212.1 Misalignment 222.2 Collective Ownership 232.3 Ownership Using SRE 252.4 The Challenge Statement 382.5 Coaching 392.6 Summary 41 Chapter 3: SRE Basic Concepts 433.1 Service Level Indicators 433.2 Service Level Objectives 453.3 Error Budgets 473.4 Error Budget Policies 533.5 SRE Concept Pyramid 553.6 Alignment Using the SRE Concept Pyramid 593.7 Summary 63 Chapter 4: Assessing the Status Quo 654.1 Where Is the Organization? 654.2 Where Are the People? 694.3 Where Is the Tech? 714.4 Where Is the Culture? 744.5 Where Is the Process? 794.6 SRE Maturity Model 814.7 Posing Hypotheses 814.8 Summary 86 Part II: Running the Transformation 87 Chapter 5: Achieving Organizational Buy-In 895.1 Getting People Behind SRE 895.2 SRE Marketing Funnel 925.3 SRE Coaches 965.4 Top-Down Buy-In 995.5 Bottom-Up Buy-In 1175.6 Lateral Buy-In 1225.7 Buy-In Staggering 1235.8 Team Coaching 1245.9 Traversing the Organization 1265.10 Organizational Coaching 1315.11 Summary 133 Chapter 6: Laying Down the Foundations 1356.1 Introductory Talks by Team 1356.2 Conveying the Basics 1366.3 SLI Standardization 1476.4 Enabling Logging 1546.5 Teaching the Log Query Language 1566.6 Defining Initial SLOs 1576.7 Default SLOs 1636.8 Providing Basic Infrastructure 1646.9 Engaging Champions 1676.10 Dealing with Detractors 1686.11 Creating Documentation 1716.12 Broadcast Success 1726.13 Summary 174 Chapter 7: Reacting to Alerts on SLO Breaches 1757.1 Environment Selection 1757.2 Responsibilities 1777.3 Ways of Working 1807.4 Setting Up On-Call Rotations 1857.5 On-Call Management Tools 1887.6 Out-of-Hours On-Call 1937.7 Systematic Knowledge Sharing 1967.8 Broadcast Success 2087.9 Summary 209 Chapter 8: Implementing Alert Dispatching 2118.1 Alert Escalation 2128.2 Defining an Alert Escalation Policy 2148.3 Defining Stakeholder Groups 2168.4 Triggering Stakeholder Notifications 2188.5 Defining Stakeholder Rings 2198.6 Defining Effective Stakeholder Notifications 2228.7 Getting the Stakeholders Subscribed 2258.8 Broadcast Success 2268.9 Summary 227 Chapter 9: Implementing Incident Response 2299.1 Incident Response Foundations 2299.2 Incident Priorities 2309.3 Complex Incident Coordination 2489.4 Incident Postmortems 2689.5 Effective Postmortem Criteria 2699.6 Mashing Up the Tools 2949.7 Service Status Broadcast 2989.8 Documenting the Incident Response Process 3019.9 Broadcast Success 3029.10 Summary 303 Chapter 10: Setting Up an Error Budget Policy 30510.1 Motivation 305 10.2 Terminology 307 10.3 Error Budget Policy Structure 30810.4 Error Budget Policy Conditions 30910.5 Error Budget Policy Consequences 31110.6 Error Budget Policy Governance 31210.7 Extending the Error Budget Policy 31410.8 Agreeing to the Error Budget Policy 31810.9 Storing the Error Budget Policy 31910.10 Enacting the Error Budget Policy 32010.11 Reviewing the Error Budget Policy 32110.12 Related Concepts 32210.13 Summary 324 Chapter 11: Enabling Error Budget–Based Decision-Making 325 11.1 Reliability Decision-Making Taxonomy 32511.2 Implementing SRE Indicators 33011.3 Process Indicators, Not People KPIs 35911.4 Decisions Versus Indicators 35911.5 Decision-Making Workflows 36211.6 Summary 388 Chapter 12: Implementing Organizational Structure 39112.1 SRE Principles Versus Organizational Structure 39312.2 Who Builds It, Who Runs It? 39412.3 You Build It, You Run It 40312.4 You Build It, You and SRE Run It 40612.5 You Build It, SRE Run It 42112.6 Cost Optimization 42412.7 Team Topologies 42612.8 Choosing a Model 43212.9 A New Role: SRE 44012.10 SRE Career Path 45012.11 Communicating the Chosen Model 45612.12 Introducing the Chosen Model 45712.13 Summary 462 Part III: Measuring and Sustaining the Transformation 465 Chapter 13: Measuring the SRE Transformation 46713.1 Testing Transformation Hypotheses 46713.2 Outages Not Detected Internally 46913.3 Services Exhausting Error Budgets Prematurely 47013.4 Executives' Perceptions 47113.5 Reliability Perception by Users and Partners 47213.6 Summary 473 Chapter 14: Sustaining the SRE Movement 47514.1 Maturing the SRE CoP 47514.2 SRE Minutes 47514.3 Availability Newsletter 47614.4 SRE Column in the Engineering Blog 47714.5 Promote Long-Form SRE Wiki Articles 47714.6 SRE Broadcasting 47814.7 Combining SRE and CD Indicators 47914.8 SRE Feedback Loops 48314.9 New Hypotheses 48414.10 Providing Learning Opportunities 48614.11 Supporting SRE Coaches 48714.12 Summary 489 Chapter 15: The Road Ahead 49115.1 Service Catalog 49215.2 SLAs 49415.3 Regulatory Compliance 49415.4 SRE Infrastructure 49515.5 Game Days 496 Appendix: Topics for Quick Reference 499 Index 507
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Pearson Education (US) Securing 5G and Evolving Architectures
Book SynopsisPramod Nair is a Lead Security Architect at Cisco Systems focusing on service providers. During his 20 years of experience in the industry, Pramod has worked in multiple areas, including research and development, designing end-to-end mobile networks, and technical consulting on military and defense projects. Among other responsibilities in his current role within Cisco, Pramod leads 5G Security Architecture, driving its adoption globally, and has been instrumental in architecting secure next-generation networks for customers across the globe. He is a regular speaker on the subject at large conferences and industry events. Pramod is an active member of the security community. His role is to help mobile network providers, service providers, industry verticals, the national security and defense sectors, and other agencies dedicated to securing critical infrastructures. He is also deeply involved with industry trade organizations, has co-chaired the 5G secTable of ContentsForeword xv Preface xvi Acknowledgments xxi About the Author xxii Part I Evolution of Cellular Technologies to 5G, Security Enhancements, and Challenges Chapter 1: Evolution from 4G to 5G 2 Mobile Network Evolution from 4G to 5G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Key 5G Features in 3GPP Releases.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Key 5G Advanced Features.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Acronym Key.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Chapter 2: Deployment Modes in 5G 26 5G NSA and SA Deployments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 5G Time-Sensitive Networks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5G Local Area Network–Type Service.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Private 5G/Non-Public Networks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Acronym Key.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Chapter 3: Securing 5G Infrastructure 56 3GPP 5G Security Enhancements.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Security Challenges in 5G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Acronyms Key.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Part II Securing 5G Architectures, Deployment Modes, and Use Cases Chapter 4: Securing RAN and Transport Deployments in 5G 82 5G RAN and Transport Threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Securing 5G RAN and Transport.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Real Scenario Case Study: Examples of Threat Surfaces and Their Mitigation. . 125 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Acronym Key.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Chapter 5: Securing MEC Deployments in 5G 142 Service Provider Network-Based MEC.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Enterprise Network-Based MEC.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 MEC Deployment Models.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Threat Surfaces in 5G MEC Deployments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Securing 5G MEC.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Real Scenario Case Study: MEC Threats and Their Mitigation.. . . . . . . . . 217 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Acronym Key.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Chapter 6: Securing Virtualized 5G Core Deployments 234 A Brief Evolution of Virtualization in Telecommunications.. . . . . . . . . . . 235 Threats in Virtualized 5G Packet Core Deployments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Securing Virtualized 5G Packet Core Deployments.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Real Scenario Case Study: Virtualized 5GC Threats and Mitigation.. . . . . . . 281 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Acronym Key.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 Chapter 7: Securing Network Slice, SDN, and Orchestration in 5G 298 Network Slicing and Its Enablers—SDN and Orchestration. . . . . . . . . . 299 Threat Surfaces in 5G Network Slice, SDN, and Orchestration Deployments.. . . 309 Mitigation of Threats.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Real Scenario Case Study: Threats in the 5G Network Slice, SDN, and Orchestration Deployments and Their Mitigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 Key Acronyms.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Chapter 8: Securing Massive IoT Deployments in 5G 376 Massive IoT–Based Threats in 5G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 Securing mIoT Deployments in 5G Networks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 Real Scenario Case Study: mIoT Threats and Their Mitigation.. . . . . . . . . 414 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Key Acronyms.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 Chapter 9: Securing 5G Use Cases 424 Secure 5G Smart Factory and Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425 Critical Infrastructure.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 5G Vehicle-to-Everything (5G-V2X).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 Standards and Associations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 Key Acronyms.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Part III End-to-End 5G Security Architecture and Prioritizing Security Investments Chapter 10: Building Pragmatic End-to-End 5G Security Architecture 468 Foundations of 5G Security.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 Key Tenets of 5G Security Architecture.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 Acronyms Key.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501 Chapter 11: Prioritizing 5G Security Investments 502 Method of Prioritizing Security Controls.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 Acronyms Key.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534 Part IV Emerging Discussions Chapter 12: 5G and Beyond 536 Adoption and Adaptability of 5G and Evolving Technologies.. . . . . . . . . 537 Convergence of Wi-Fi and Evolving Cellular Technologies.. . . . . . . . . . 539 Use of AI and ML in Securing 5G and Evolving Networks.. . . . . . . . . . . 543 Crypto Agility in 5G and Evolving Technologies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 Summary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 Acronym Key.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 References.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550 9780137457939, TOC, 10/27/2021
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Pearson Education (US) Understanding and Troubleshooting Cisco Catalyst
Book SynopsisSimone Arena is a principal technical marketing engineer (TME) within the Cisco Enterprise Networking & Cloud group and is primarily focused on enterprise network architecture and on all things related to wireless and mobility. Simone is based in Italy and is a Cisco veteran, having joined Cisco in 1999. Throughout the years, Simone has covered multiple roles at Cisco, starting as a software engineer working with Catalyst switching platforms, to consulting system engineer in the field, to TME within different teams (Enterprise Solution Engineering, Wireless Business Unit, Enterprise Networking and Cloud, and now Networking Experiences Group). Today Simone is the lead TME architect for Catalyst Wireless, and his time is split between helping customers and partners design the best solution that fits their needs and engineering and product management, trying to evolve and improve the products and solutions. Simone is a Distinguished Speaker at Cisco Live and has spokenTable of Contents Introduction xxvii Chapter 1 Cisco C9800 Series 1 Why Cisco C9800? 2 The Role of the Wireless Controller in a Cloud Era 7 Managing the Cisco C9800 10 Cisco Next-Generation Wireless Stack 22 Summary 23 References 23 Chapter 2 Hardware and Software Architecture of the C9800 25 General CAPWAP Split MAC Architecture 25 The Controller Control Plane Architecture Elasticity 27 Wireless Client State Machine 31 One Dataplane to Rule Them All (or Three at the Maximum) 35 Hardware Overview 38 Summary 42 Chapter 3 C9800 Configuration Model 43 C9800 New Configuration Model 43 Cisco C9800 Series Profile and Tag Considerations 48 Summary 64 References 64 Chapter 4 C9800 Deployment and Installation 65 C9800 Deployment Models 65 Setting Up Your First Catalyst Wireless Network 79 Summary 87 References 87 Chapter 5 Security 89 Network Security Fundamentals 89 Wireless Security Fundamentals 116 Securing the Air 128 Securing Your Access Points 148 Securing Your Wireless Controller 151 Encrypted Traffic Analytics 154 Cisco Umbrella 155 Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (CSDL) 157 Summary 157 References 157 Chapter 6 Mobility and Client Roaming 159 802.11 Roaming 160 Types of Client Roaming 181 C9800 to AireOS Inter-Release Controller Mobility (IRCM) 191 Summary 192 References 193 Chapter 7 RF Deployment and Guidelines 195 Radio Resources Management (RRM) Concepts and Components 195 Challenging RF Environments 199 Radio Resources Management (RRM) 203 DCA 211 RF Profiles 215 Spectrum Intelligence and CleanAir 219 Advanced RF Features 224 Airtime Fairness (ATF) 228 Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) 232 Flexible Radio Assignment (FRA) 235 Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) and Rogue Detection 238 Summary 246 References 246 Chapter 8 Multicast and Multicast Domain Name System (mDNS) 247 Wireless Multicast 250 Media Stream Feature 263 mDNS 272 Summary 283 References 283 Chapter 9 Quality of Service (QoS) 285 Wi-Fi Quality of Service (QoS) 286 Wi-Fi (802.11) QoS Fundamentals 287 Implementing Wireless QoS on the C9800 300 Designing and Deploying Catalyst C9800 QoS 304 Best Practices 320 Summary 322 References 322 Chapter 10 C9800 High Availability 323 SSO Redundancy 324 HA Teardown 349 SSO Deployment: Impact on Features 350 N+1 Redundancy 352 N+1 vs. SSO High Availability 357 HA in EWC-AP Deployment 358 HA in EWC-SW Deployment 359 Summary 359 References 360 Chapter 11 Cisco DNA Spaces Integration and IoT 361 Value-Added Wireless Services 361 Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) 372 Cisco DNA Spaces 372 Specific Service Examples 379 Summary 392 References 392 Chapter 12 Network Programmability 393 What Is Network Programmability? 393 Why Is Network Programmability Needed? 393 Is Network Programmability a New Concept? 396 Orchestration of the Entire Network 396 Configuration Repeatability 396 Idempotency 397 Imperative vs. Declarative Models 397 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 400 Network Programmability in the C9800 401 Data Models 402 YANG Data Models 403 Encoding Formats 406 Protocols 408 Tools to Examine YANG Models 412 How to Examine Data Using NETCONF and YANG Suite 419 How to Examine Data Using RESTCONF and POSTMAN 421 Python and Network Programmability 429 Summary 436 References 436 Chapter 13 Model-Driven Telemetry 437 What Is Model-Driven Telemetry? 437 How to Enable Model-Driven Telemetry 438 Operational Data and KPIs 441 Polling vs. Subscribing 447 Telemetry Streams 448 How to Identify Subtrees in YANG Models 449 Dial-out vs. Dial-in 450 Tools 460 Summary 467 References 467 Chapter 14 Cisco DNA Center/Assurance Integration 469 Introduction 469 Managing the C9800 with Cisco DNA Center 472 Summary 492 References 492 Chapter 15 Backing Up, Restoring, and Upgrading Your C9800 493 Saving and Restoring the Configuration for Disaster Recovery 493 Running IOS-XE in Install or Bundle Mode 500 Upgrading (and Downgrading) the Controller Safely 501 Summary 506 References 506 Chapter 16 Troubleshooting 507 Control Plane Tracing 509 Embedded Packet Capture (EPC) 525 Packet Tracer 531 Troubleshooting Dashboard 536 Other On-the-Box Tools on the C9800 GUI 540 Offline Tools for the C9800 545 Health and KPI Monitoring 548 Summary 577 References 578 Appendix A Setting Up a Development Environment 579 9780137492329, TOC, 5/27/2022
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Pearson Education (US) Engineering Graphics with AutoCAD 2023
Book Synopsis James D. Bethune taught drafting and Computer Aided-Design (CAD) for 39 years, twice winning the Outstanding Professor of the year award. He has a doctor's degree in education from Boston University and has written more than 28 books on drafting and CAD. While retired from full-time teaching, Jim continues to write textbooks on CAD. An avid golfer, Jim lives in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. David Byrnes recently retired from a 38-year career of design, drafting, and 3D modeling. He has written and co-authored several books on AutoCAD. He was a contributing editor to Cadalyst Magazine (1990-2005), as well as the Canadian magazines CAD Systems and AutoCAD User. He taught 2D and 3D design software at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, for 15 years. He also taught at British Columbia Institute of Technology and the University of British Columbia during this time. <Table of ContentsChapter 1 Getting Started 1 1-1 Introduction 2 1-2 Tabs and Panels 5 1-3 The Command Line Window 6 1-4 Command Tools 7 1-5 Starting a New Drawing 8 1-6 Naming a Drawing 8 1-7 Drawing Units 11 1-8 Drawing Limits 13 1-9 Grid and Snap 17 1-10 Drawing Problem 18 1-11 Save and Save As 21 1-12 Open 23 1-13 Close 24 1-14 Exercise Problems 25 Chapter 2 Fundamentals of 2D Construction 29 2-1 Introduction 29 2-2 Line--Random Points 29 2-3 Erase 32 2-4 Line--Snap Points 34 2-5 Line--Dynamic Input 35 2-6 Construction Line 38 2-7 Circle 42 2-8 Circle Centerline 45 2-9 Polyline 46 2-10 Spline 50 2-11 Ellipse 51 2-12 Rectangle 54 2-13 Polygon 55 2-14 Point 56 2-15 Text 57 2-16 Move 62 2-17 Copy 63 2-18 Offset 64 2-19 Mirror 65 2-20 Array 65 2-21 Rotate 68 2-22 Trim 69 2-23 Extend 70 2-24 Break 71 2-25 Chamfer 72 2-26 Fillet 73 2-27 Table 74 2-28 Exercise Problems 78 Chapter 3 Advanced Commands 89 3-1 Introduction 89 3-2 Object Snap 89 3-3 Osnap--Endpoint 92 3-4 Osnap--Midpoint 93 3-5 Osnap--Intersection 93 3-6 Osnap--Apparent Intersection 94 3-7 Osnap--Center 95 3-8 Osnap--Quadrant 96 3-9 Osnap--Perpendicular 96 3-10 Osnap--Tangent 97 3-11 Osnap--Nearest 97 3-12 Drawing Problem 98 3-13 Drawing Problem 100 3-14 Grips 101 3-15 Grips--Extend 103 3-16 Grips--Move 104 3-17 Grips--Rotate 104 3-18 Grips--Scale 105 3-19 Grips--Mirror 106 3-20 Blocks 106 3-21 Working with Blocks 110 3-22 Wblock 115 3-23 Layers 117 3-24 Attributes 126 3-25 Title Blocks with Attributes 132 3-26 Edit Polyline 135 3-27 Edit Spline 136 3-28 Edit Text 137 3-29 Constructing the Bisector of an Angle, Method I 138 3-30 Constructing the Bisector of an Angle, Method II 138 3-31 Constructing an Ogee Curve (S-Curve) with Equal Arcs 139 3-32 Constructing a Parabola 141 3-33 Constructing a Hyperbola 141 3-34 Constructing a Spiral 143 3-35 Constructing a Helix 143 3-36 Designing by Using Shape Parameters 145 3-37 Exercise Problems 149 Chapter 4 Sketching 169 4-1 Introduction 169 4-2 Establishing Your Own Style 169 4-3 Graph Paper 170 4-4 Pencils 170 4-5 Lines 171 4-6 Proportions 172 4-7 Curves 173 4-8 Drawing Problem 175 4-9 Isometric Sketches 176 4-10 Drawing Problem 179 4-11 Oblique Sketches 180 4-12 Perspective Sketches 182 4-13 Working in Different Orientations 184 4-14 Exercise Problems 185 Chapter 5 Orthographic Views 199 5-1 Introduction 199 5-2 Three Views of an Object 200 5-3 Visualization 201 5-4 Hidden Lines 203 5-5 Hidden Line Conventions 204 5-6 Drawing Hidden Lines 205 5-7 Precedence of Lines 209 5-8 Slanted Surfaces 210 5-9 Projection Between Views 211 5-10 Drawing Problem 212 5-11 Compound Lines 213 5-12 Drawing Problem 214 5-13 Oblique Surfaces 215 5-14 Drawing Problem 217 5-15 Rounded Surfaces 217 5-16 Drawing Problem 219 5-17 Holes 220 5-18 Holes in Slanted Surfaces 222 5-19 Cylinders 226 5-20 Drawing Problem 227 5-21 Cylinders with Slanted and Rounded Surfaces 228 5-22 Drawing Problem 228 5-23 Drawing Conventions and Cylinders 229 5-24 Irregular Surfaces 230 5-25 Drawing Problem 231 5-26 Hole Callouts 232 5-27 Castings 234 5-28 Drawing Problem 237 5-29 Thin-Walled Objects 238 5-30 Drawing Problem 239 5-31 Intersections 240 5-32 Drawing Problem 241 5-33 Drawing Problem 242 5-34 Drawing Problem 243 5-35 Designing by Modifying an Existing Part 245 5-36 Drawing Standards 247 5-37 Third- and First-Angle Projections 249 5-38 Exercise Problems 251 Chapter 6 Sectional Views 285 6-1 Introduction 285 6-2 Cutting Plane Lines 287 6-3 Indicating Solid Cuts 290 6-4 Hatch 292 6-5 Drawing Problem 295 6-6 Styles of Section Lines 296 6-7 Sectional View Location 296 6-8 Holes in Sections 297 6-9 Gradients 298 6-10 Offset Sections 299 6-11 Multiple Sections 300 6-12 Aligned Sections 300 6-13 Drawing Conventions in Sections 301 6-14 Half, Partial, and Broken-Out Sectional Views 302 6-15 Removed Sectional Views 303 6-16 Breaks 303 6-17 Sectional Views of Castings 305 6-18 Exercise Problems 306 Chapter 7 Auxiliary Views 327 7-1 Introduction 327 7-2 Projection Between Normal and Auxiliary Views 328 7-3 Drawing Problem 331 7-4 Transferring Lines Between Views 332 7-5 Drawing Problem 334 7-6 Projecting Rounded Surfaces 335 7-7 Drawing Problem 335 7-8 Projecting Irregular Surfaces 337 7-9 Drawing Problem 337 7-10 Drawing Problem 339 7-11 Partial Auxiliary Views 340 7-12 Sectional Auxiliary Views 341 7-13 Auxiliary Views of Oblique Surfaces 342 7-14 Secondary Auxiliary Views 343 7-15 Drawing Problem 346 7-16 Secondary Auxiliary View of an Ellipse 348 7-17 Exercise Problems 350 Chapter 8 Dimensioning 367 8-1 Introduction 367 8-2 Terminology and Conventions 368 8-3 Linear Dimensions 370 8-4 Dimension Styles 376 8-5 Units 380 8-6 Aligned Dimensions 384 8-7 Radius and Diameter Dimensions 385 8-8 Angular Dimensions 391 8-9 Ordinate Dimensions 393 8-10 Baseline Dimensions 396 8-11 Continued Dimensions 398 8-12 Quick Dimension 399 8-13 Center Mark 400 8-14 Mleader and Qleader 401 8-15 Text Angle 404 8-16 Tolerances 405 8-17 Dimensioning Holes 406 8-18 Placing Dimensions 408 8-19 Fillets and Rounds 409 8-20 Rounded Shapes--Internal 409 8-21 Rounded Shapes--External 410 8-22 Irregular Surfaces 410 8-23 Polar Dimensions 411 8-24 Chamfers 412 8-25 Knurling 413 8-26 Keys and Keyseats 414 8-27 Symbols and Abbreviations 414 8-28 Symmetry and Centerline 415 8-29 Dimensioning to Points 415 8-30 Coordinate Dimensions 416 8-31 Sectional Views 417 8-32 Orthographic Views 417 8-33 Very Large Radii 419 8-34 Exercise Problems 420 Chapter 9 Tolerancing 441 9-1 Introduction 441 9-2 Direct Tolerance Methods 441 9-3 Tolerance Expressions 442 9-4 Understanding Plus and Minus Tolerances 443 9-5 Creating Plus and Minus Tolerances with AutoCAD 443 9-6 Limit Tolerances 446 9-7 Creating Limit Tolerances in AutoCAD 447 9-8 Angular Tolerances 448 9-9 Standard Tolerances 450 9-10 Double Dimensioning 450 9-11 Chain Dimensions and Baseline Dimensions 451 9-12 Tolerance Studies 453 9-13 Rectangular Dimensions 454 9-14 Hole Locations 455 9-15 Choosing a Shaft for a Toleranced Hole 456 9-16 Drawing Problem 457 9-17 Drawing Problem 458 9-18 Standard Fits (Metric Values) 458 9-19 Nominal Sizes 461 9-20 Hole and Shaft Basis 461 9-21 Drawing Problem 461 9-22 Standard Fits (Inch Values) 462 9-23 Drawing Problem 463 9-24 Preferred and Standard Sizes 463 9-25 Surface Finishes 465 9-26 Surface Control Symbols 467 9-27 Drawing Problem 467 9-28 Exercise Problems 472 Chapter 10 Geometric Tolerances 487 10-1 Introduction 487 10-2 Tolerances of Form 488 10-3 Flatness 488 10-4 Straightness 489 10-5 Straightness (RFS and MMC) 489 10-6 Circularity 492 10-7 Cylindricity 493 10-8 Creating Geometric Tolerances in AutoCAD 493 10-9 Tolerances of Orientation 500 10-10 Datums 501 10-11 Perpendicularity 502 10-12 Parallelism 504 10-13 Angularism 504 10-14 Profiles 505 10-15 Runouts 506 10-16 Positional Tolerances 508 10-17 Virtual Condition 509 10-18 Floating Fasteners 510 10-19 Drawing Problem 511 10-20 Drawing Problem 511 10-21 Fixed Fasteners 512 10-22 Drawing Problem 513 10-23 Design Problems 514 10-24 Exercise Problems 516 Chapter 11 Threads and Fasteners 535 11-1 Introduction 535 11-2 Thread Terminology 535 11-3 Thread Callouts--Metric Units 536 11-4 Thread Callouts--English Units 536 11-5 Thread Representations 538 11-6 Orthographic Views of Internal Threads 542 11-7 Sectional Views of Internal Thread Representations 544 11-8 Types of Threads 544 11-9 How to Draw an External Square Thread 545 11-10 How to Draw an Internal Square Thread 546 11-11 How to Draw an External Acme Thread 546 11-12 Bolts and Nuts 548 11-13 Screws 549 11-14 Studs 550 11-15 Head Shapes 550 11-16 Nuts 554 11-17 Drawing Problem 557 11-18 Drawing Problem 558 11-19 Standard Screws 559 11-20 Set screws 560 11-21 Washers 561 11-22 Keys 562 11-23 Rivets 563 11-24 Springs 564 11-25 Tool Palettes 567 11-26 Exercise Problems 569 Chapter 12 Working Drawings 579 12-1 Introduction 579 12-2 Assembly Drawings 579 12-3 Drawing Formats (Templates) 582 12-4 Title Block 584 12-5 Revision Block 586 12-6 Tolerance Block 588 12-7 Release Block 588 12-8 Parts List (Bill of Materials [BOM]) 589 12-9 Detail Drawings 591 12-10 First-Angle Projection 591 12-11 Drawing Notes 592 12-12 Design Layouts 593 12-13 Drawing Problem 593 12-14 Drawing Problem 598 12-15 Drawing Problem 601 12-16 Exercise Problems 603 Chapter 13 Gears, Bearings, and Cams 625 13-1 Introduction 625 13-2 Types of Gears 625 13-3 Gear Terminology--Spur 626 13-4 Spur Gear Drawings 628 13-5 Drawing Problem 629 13-6 Drawing Problem 631 13-7 Drawing Problem 632 13-8 Selecting Spur Gears 633 13-9 Center Distance Between Gears 635 13-10 Drawing Problem 635 13-11 Combining Spur Gears 636 13-12 Gear Terminology--Bevel 637 13-13 How to Draw Bevel Gears 639 13-14 Worm Gears 641 13-15 Helical Gears 643 13-16 Racks 644 13-17 Ball Bearings 645 13-18 Drawing Problem 646 13-19 Bushings 647 13-20 Drawing Problem 648 13-21 Cam Displacement Diagrams 650 13-22 Cam Motions 652 13-23 Cam Followers 655 13-24 Drawing Problem 655 13-25 Exercise Problems 658 Chapter 14 Fundamentals of 3D Modeling 669 14-1 Introduction 669 14-2 The World Coordinate System 669 14-3 Viewpoints 672 14-4 Perspective and Parallel Grids 673 14-5 Setting the 3D Modeling Workspace 676 14-6 User Coordinate Systems 677 14-7 Editing a Solid Model 682 14-8 Visual Styles 683 14-9 Rotating a UCS Axis 685 14-10 Drawing Problem 686 14-11 Visual Errors 688 14-12 Drawing Problem 688 14-13 Orthographic Views 690 14-14 Line Thickness 693 14-15 Using the Thickness Variable to 14-16 Exercise Problems 699 Chapter 15 Advanced Modeling 705 15-1 Introduction 705 15-2 Box 706 15-3 Sphere 709 15-4 Cylinder 709 15-5 Cone 711 15-6 Wedge 713 15-7 Torus 715 15-8 Extrude 716 15-9 Revolve 718 15-10 Helix 719 15-11 Sweep 720 15-12 Loft 721 15-13 Union and Subtract 722 15-14 Intersect 724 15-15 Solid Modeling and UCSs 725 15-16 Combining Solid Objects 727 15-17 Intersecting Solids 732 15-18 Solid Models of Castings 737 15-19 Thread Representations in Solid Models 742 15-20 List 743 15-21 Massprop 744 15-22 Face and Edge Editing 744 15-23 Exercise Problems 752 Chapter 16 Projects (Online Only) 16-1 Introduction 16-2 Project 1: Milling Vise 16-3 Project 2: Tenon Jig Appendix (Online Only) 9780137929993 TOC 7/26/2022
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Pearson Education (US) Technical Drawing with Engineering Graphics
Book SynopsisShawna Lockhart combines her university teaching experience at Montana State University and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University with wide ranging industrial experience to write engineering design communication and CAD software texts. An early adopter of 2D and 3D CAD technology, she is the author of multiple texts, from AutoCAD Release 10 in 1992 to the current 2023 release. Shawna also writes industrial manuals on a variety of topics including robotics, dynos, mineral processing and lasers Marla Goodman has a background in developing outreach communications and information graphics. For Montana State University and others, she has created educational publications and graphics on a wide range of topics ranging from environmental health, agriculture and wildlife to climate science and thermal biology. In addition to her involvement in educational publishing, she has worked for newspapers and magazines in the various roles of writer, editTable of ContentsChapter 1 The Worldwide Graphic Language for Design Chapter 2 Layouts and Lettering Chapter 3 Visualization and Sketching Chapter 4 Geometry for Modeling and Design Chapter 5 Modeling and Design Chapter 6 Orthographic Projection Chapter 7 2D Drawing Representation Chapter 8 Section Views Chapter 9 Auxiliary Views Chapter 10 Modeling for Manufacture and Assembly Chapter 11 Dimensioning Chapter 12 Tolerancing Chapter 13 Threads, Fasteners, and Springs Chapter 14 Working Drawings Chapter 15 Drawing Control and Data Management Chapter 16 Gears and Cams Chapter 17 Electronic Diagrams Chapter 18 Structural Drawing Chapter 19 Landform Drawings Chapter 20 Piping Drawings Chapter 21 Welding Representation Chapter 22 Axonometric Projection Chapter 23 Perspective Drawings
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Pearson Education (US) Discovering AutoCAD 2024
Book SynopsisMark Dix first worked with AutoCAD as a programmer in 1985. The following year he began collaborating with Paul Riley to create AutoCAD training material, combining Paul's background in industrial design with his own background in writing and curriculum development. Mark received an M.A.T. from Cornell University and an M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts. Paul Riley was an early advocate for exposing students to the advantages of learning AutoCAD for career advancement. Paul holds a B.S. in Education and an M.S. in Computer Technology with a career that has included teaching at public high school, private college, public university, and technology companies in the Boston area. Lee Ambrosius has held many different roles in the industry and has a wide range of experience with AutoCAD. He started using AutoCAD in 1994, even before he began his professional career as a drafter in 1996. Along with being a draTable of ContentsPart One Basic Two-Dimensional Entities Chapter 1 Lines and Essential Tools Chapter 2 Circles and Drawing Aids Chapter 3 Layers, Colors, and Linetypes Chapter 4 Templates, Copies, and Arrays Chapter 5 Arcs and Polar Arrays Chapter 6 Object Snaps and Resized Objects Part Two Text, Dimensions, and Other Complex Entities Chapter 7 Text Chapter 8 Dimensions Chapter 9 Polylines Chapter 10 Blocks, Attributes, and External References Part Three Isometric Drawing and Three-Dimensional Modeling Chapter 11 Isometric Drawing Chapter 12 3D Modeling Chapter 13 More Modeling Techniques and Commands Appendix A Drawing Projects Appendix B Creating Custom Ribbon Panels Appendix C Menus, Macros, and the CUI Appendix D and Glossary are available online at peachpit.com/Discoverautocad2024.
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Pearson Education (US) Introduction to AutoCAD 2024
Book SynopsisPaul Richard has worked in the CAD/BIM field for more than 35 years, first starting as a CAD drafter/designer in 1985. Since then, he has worked in the AEC industry as a CAD manager, CAD instructor, author, and software developer. In his spare time, Paul likes riding and working on motorcycles.Table of ContentsPart One An Introduction to AutoCAD Chapter 1 Introduction to AutoCAD 1 Chapter Objectives 1 Introduction 1 What Is CAD? 1 Fundamental CAD Concepts 4 Drawing Actual Size 4 The Cartesian Coordinate System 5 Right-Hand Rule 5 Grid Units 6 Angle Measurement 7 Annotation Scale 8 Object Properties 9 Colors 10 Linetypes 11 Lineweights 12 Transparency 13 Controlling Object Properties 13 Model Space and Paper Space 13 AutoCAD File Types 14 A First Look at AutoCAD 15 The Start Tab 15 File Tab Menu 17 The AutoCAD User Interface 18 Workspaces 20 Quick Access Toolbar 20 Application Menu 22 Ribbon 24 Tooltips 28 The Command Line Window 29 Dynamic Input 35 Right-Click Shortcut Menus 37 Accessing Recent Input 37 Status Bar 38 In-Canvas Viewport Control 40 ViewCube 41 Navigation Bar 42 Dialog Boxes 43 Palettes 43 Keyboard Commands 47 InfoCenter 49 Getting Help 50 Chapter Summary 52 Chapter Test Questions 52 Chapter 2 Quick Start Tutorial 55 Chapter Objectives 55 Introduction 55 Creating a New Drawing 55 Using a Template 56 Saving Your Work 56 File Safety Precautions 58 Model Space and Layout Space 59 The Layout Menu 60 Viewports 60 Communicating with AutoCAD 62 The Command Line 62 Dynamic Input 62 Object Snaps, Ortho Mode, and Polar Tracking 65 Undo/Redo 66 Grid and Snap 67 Draw a Circle 68 Navigating Around the Drawing 69 Zooming with a Wheel Mouse 71 Object Properties 71 Layers 73 Freeze and Thaw a Layer 77 Lock and Unlock a Layer 78 Dimension Styles 79 Dimensioning 83 Modifying Drawing Objects 86 Selection Sets 86 Grip Editing 88 Introduction to Advanced Editing Techniques 93 Making Parallel Copies 93 Fixing Overlapping Lines and Closing Gaps 94 Cleaning Up Layout Space 96 Setting the Viewport Scale 96 Text 99 Plotting and Page Setups 102 Plotting 105 Chapter Summary 107 Chapter Test Questions 107 Part Two Drafting Skills: Drawing with AutoCAD Chapter 3 Controlling the Drawing Display 111 Chapter Objectives 111 Introduction 111 Zooming In and Out of a Drawing 111 Zoom Tools 112 Using the Mouse Wheel 117 Panning Around a Drawing 118 The Pan Tool 118 Using the Middle Mouse Button 120 Panning and Zooming Transparently 121 Chapter Summary 123 Chapter Test Questions 123 Chapter Project 125 Chapter 4 Basic Drawing Commands 127 Chapter Objectives 127 Introduction 127 Drawing Setup 127 Templates 128 Units 128 Setting the Drawing Area 131 Drawing Lines 131 Coordinate Entry Methods 132 Cartesian Coordinates 132 Absolute Versus Relative Coordinate Entry 134 Polar Coordinates 135 Dynamic Input 136 Drawing Circles 137 Center Radius 137 Center Diameter 138 2 Point Circle 139 3 Point Circle 139 Tangent Tangent Radius 140 Drawing Arcs 141 The ARC Command 142 3 Point Arc 142 Arc Options 142 Using the ARC Command 143 Drawing Ellipses 144 Elliptical Arcs 146 Points 147 Point Styles 147 Measure and Divide 149 Chapter Summary 151 Chapter Test Questions 151 Chapter Projects 154 Chapter 5 Drawing Tools and Drafting Settings 159 Chapter Objectives 159 Introduction 159 Grid Mode 161 Setting the Grid Style 162 Setting the Grid Spacing 162 Controlling Grid Mode Behavior 162 Snap Mode 163 Setting the Snap Spacing 163 Setting the Snap Type and Style 164 Ortho Mode 165 Polar Tracking 166 Setting the Polar Tracking Angle and Measurement Method 167 Object Snaps 169 Object Snap Modes 170 Basic Object Snaps 172 Advanced Object Snap Modes 181 Object Snap Tracking 185 Temporary Tracking 186 Object Snap Tracking 187 Intersecting Alignment Paths 187 Dynamic Input 190 Pointer Input 190 Dimension Input 190 Dynamic Prompts 191 Dynamic Input Settings 191 Using Construction Lines 194 The XLINE Command 194 The RAY Command 204 Chapter Summary 205 Chapter Test Questions 205 Chapter Projects 208 Chapter 6 Managing Object Properties 213 Chapter Objectives 213 Introduction 213 Common Object Properties 213 Layers 214 The LAYER Command 214 Layer Name List 215 Deleting a Layer 227 Layer Settings 228 Using Layers 230 Linetype Scale 231 Hard-Coded Versus Soft-Coded Properties 232 Setting the Default Object Properties 232 Color Control and Management 233 Linetype Control and Management 233 Lineweight Control and Management 235 Transparency Control and Management 235 Changing the Properties of Objects 236 The Properties Palette 236 The Properties Panel 238 Quick Properties 238 Copying Properties Between Objects 240 Creating Objects with Properties Based on Existing Objects 240 Using DesignCenter to Import Layers 242 Layer Filters 243 The Filter Tree 244 Property Filters 244 Group Filters 246 Search Filter 247 Layer States Manager 247 Object Visibility 249 Chapter Summary 250 Chapter Test Questions 250 Chapter Projects 253 Part Three Understanding Editing Techniques: Basics Through Advanced Chapter 7 Basic Editing Techniques 259 Chapter Objectives 259 Introduction 259 The ERASE Command 261 Selecting Objects for Editing 261 Selecting Objects Individually 262 Selecting Multiple Objects 265 Advanced Selection Techniques 271 Selecting Similar Objects 271 Grouping Objects 272 Moving Objects 274 Copying Objects 277 Mirroring Objects 279 Mirroring Text 280 Rotating Objects 281 Rotating and Copying Objects 283 Scaling Objects 284 Scaling and Copying Objects 286 Stretching Objects 287 Selecting Objects First 290 Using Grips to Edit 291 Multifunctional Grips 291 Controlling Grips 291 Selecting Grips 292 Grip Modes 293 Chapter Summary 295 Chapter Test Questions 295 Chapter Projects 298 Chapter 8 Advanced Editing Techniques 305 Chapter Objectives 305 Introduction 305 Offsetting Objects 306 Offsetting an Object a Specified Distance 306 Offsetting Through a Point 306 Offset Options 307 Arraying Objects 308 Creating a Rectangular Array 309 Creating a Path Array 311 Creating a Polar Array 313 Trimming and Extending Objects 315 Trimming Objects 315 Extending Objects 318 Creating Fillets and Chamfers 321 Creating Fillets 321 Capping Two Parallel Lines Using the Fillet Tool 323 Creating Chamfers 325 Breaking an Object 327 Creating a Gap in an Object 327 Breaking Circles, Xlines, and Rays 328 Selecting the Second Points 328 Break at Point 329 Joining Multiple Objects 330 Lengthening an Object 331 The LENGTHEN Command Options 331 Invalid Objects 332 Chapter Summary 333 Chapter Test Questions 333 Chapter Projects 336 Part Four Working with Complex Objects Chapter 9 Drawing and Editing Complex Objects 343 Chapter Objectives 343 Introduction 343 Drawing Polylines 344 Drawing Polyline Arcs 346 Drawing Polylines with a Width 351 Drawing Rectangles 352 Drawing Polygons 356 Drawing Donuts 358 Drawing Revision Clouds 359 Changing the Arc Length 360 Switching Styles 361 Creating Revision Clouds from Existing Objects 361 Editing Revision Clouds 361 Editing Polylines 363 Closing and Opening Polylines 363 Joining Polylines 364 Changing the Polyline Width 366 Editing Polyline Vertices 366 Converting Polylines into Smooth Curves 367 Controlling Polyline Linetype Generation 369 Reversing a Polyline 369 Editing Polylines Using Grips 369 Exploding Complex Objects 370 Chapter Summary 371 Chapter Test Questions 371 Chapter Projects 374 Chapter 10 Pattern Fills and Hatching 381 Chapter Objectives 381 Introduction 381 Hatching 381 Selecting a Hatch Area 382 Controlling Hatch Settings and Options 384 Gradient Fills 394 Two-Color Gradient 394 One-Color Gradient 395 Gradient Pattern 395 Editing Hatch Patterns 396 Using the Hatch Editor Context Tab of the Ribbon 396 Using the Hatch Edit Dialog Box 396 Using the Properties Palette 397 Trimming Hatches 397 Exploding Hatches 398 Using DesignCenter with Hatch Patterns 398 Chapter Summary 400 Chapter Test Questions 400 Chapter Projects 403 Part Five Annotating Drawings Chapter 11 Adding Text 407 Chapter Objectives 407 Introduction 407 Controlling the Appearance of Text 408 Fonts 409 Text Height 410 Annotation Scale 410 Text Styles 411 The Text Style Dialog Box 413 Creating Multiline Text 417 The In-Place Multiline Text Editor 420 The Text Editor Context Tab of the Ribbon 423 The Right-Click Menu 433 Stacked Text 436 Creating Single-Line Text 438 The Right-Click Menu 440 Single-Line Text Justification 441 Inserting Special Symbols in Single-Line Text 443 Text Fields 444 Inserting Text Fields 446 Editing Text Fields 448 Editing Text 449 Editing Text Content 449 Editing Text Using the Properties Palette 450 Text Alignment 452 Scaling Text 452 Changing Text Justification 453 Finding and Replacing Text 454 The Spell Checker 457 The Combine Text Tool 461 Chapter Summary 462 Chapter Test Questions 462 Chapter Projects 465 Chapter 12 Working with Tables 471 Chapter Objectives 471 Introduction 471 Creating Tables from Scratch 472 Entering Table Data 474 Creating Tables by Inserting a Data Link 475 The Data Link Manager 475 Managing Table Styles 476 Modifying Tables 480 The Right-Click Menu 481 Modifying Table Cells 482 The Table Cell Context Tab of the Ribbon 482 The Right-Click Menu 482 Inserting Formulas 485 Chapter Summary 487 Chapter Test Questions 487 Chapter Projects 490 Chapter 13 Dimensioning Drawings 493 Chapter Objectives 493 Introduction 493 Dimension Tools 493 Types of Dimensions 494 Dimension Associativity 494 Definition Points 495 Dimension Layer 495 Placing Dimensions 496 The DIM Command 496 Creating Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions 498 Selecting Definition Points 498 Selecting an Object 498 The DIMLINEAR Options 499 Creating Aligned Dimensions 502 Dimensioning Circles and Arcs 503 Radius Dimension 504 Creating a Jogged Radius Dimension 504 Diameter Dimension 505 Dimensioning the Length of an Arc 506 Creating Associative Center Marks and Centerlines 507 Angular Dimensions 508 Selecting Objects 509 Selecting Vertex and Angle Endpoints 509 The Quadrant Option 509 Creating Datum and Chain Dimensions 510 Continued Dimension 510 Baseline Dimension 511 DIMASSOC System Variable 512 Dimension Tools 513 The Adjust Space Tool 513 The Break Tool 514 The Jog Line Tool 515 Quick Dimensioning 515 Quick Dimension 515 Managing Dimension Styles 518 Creating a Dimension Style 519 Modifying a Dimension Style 520 Modifying Dimension Styles Versus Overriding Dimension Styles 532 Comparing Dimension Styles 535 Creating Leaders 536 The Multileader Tool 536 Creating Geometric Dimension and Tolerance Symbols (GD&T) 542 GDT Font 543 Inspection Dimensions 543 Modifying Dimensions 545 Grip Editing Dimensions 545 Right-Click Shortcut Menu 546 Modifying Dimension Text and Extension Lines 547 Reassociating Dimensions 549 Applying Dimension Styles 550 Chapter Summary 554 Chapter Test Questions 554 Chapter Projects 557 Part Six Outputting Your Work Chapter 14 Managing Paper Space Layouts 563 Chapter Objectives 563 Introduction 563 Layout Paper Size 565 Layout Viewport Scale 565 Controlling Layers per Layout Viewport 566 Setting Up a Layout 566 The Page Setup Manager 566 Creating Layout Viewports 575 Making a Viewport Current 581 Setting the Viewport Scale 582 Locking the Viewport Display 586 Controlling Layers per Layout Viewport 588 Modifying Layout Viewports 589 Turning Viewport Display Off and On 591 Maximizing a Viewport 592 Managing Layouts 594 Creating a New Layout 595 Renaming a Layout 597 Moving or Copying a Layout 598 Deleting a Layout 598 Paper Space Linetype Scale 600 Layout Tab 602 Chapter Summary 603 Chapter Test Questions 603 Chapter Projects 606 Chapter 15 Plotting and Publishing 611 Chapter Objectives 611 Introduction 611 Page Setups and Plotting 611 Previewing Your Plot 613 Plotting from Model Space 613 Plotting a Page Layout 616 Default Plot Settings and Page Setups 618 Plot Styles and Lineweights 619 Plot Style Manager 620 Color-Dependent Plot Styles 621 Named Plot Styles 621 Using Plot Styles 622 Plot Options 623 Plotter Setup 625 Windows System Printers 625 AutoCAD Printers 626 Plotter Manager 626 Plotting to a File 629 Plotting a Set of Drawings 632 Batch Plotting 632 Working with DWF Files 636 Autodesk Design Review 636 Chapter Summary 639 Chapter Test Questions 639 Chapter Projects 642 Part Seven Advanced Drawing and Construction Methods Chapter 16 Blocks and Block Attributes 645 Chapter Objectives 645 Introduction 645 Creating Blocks 647 The BLOCK Command 647 Block Object Properties 650 Inserting Blocks 652 The Blocks Palette 653 Nonuniformly Scaled Unit Blocks 656 Exploding Blocks 658 Inserting a Drawing File as a Block 658 Using File Explorer to Insert a Drawing File 660 Exporting Blocks 661 The WBLOCK Command 662 Block Attributes 664 Creating Attributes 666 Attribute Definition 666 Updating and Editing Attributes 668 Editing Attributes Individually 669 Editing Attributes Globally 672 Managing Attributes 672 Extracting Attributes 678 Extracting Attribute Data 679 Updating Data Extraction Table Data Manually 687 Updating Data Extraction Table Data Automatically 688 Redefining Blocks 689 Updating Blocks Created in the Current Drawing 689 Updating Blocks Inserted from an External Drawing File 690 Editing Blocks In-Place 690 Redefining Blocks with Attributes 692 Using DesignCenter to Manage Blocks 694 The DesignCenter Window 694 Tool Palettes and Dynamic Blocks 699 Controlling Tool Palettes 699 Tool Properties 702 Adding Tools to Tool Palettes 704 Introduction to Dynamic Blocks 705 Chapter Summary 710 Chapter Test Questions 711 Chapter Projects 714 Chapter 17 Working with External References 719 Chapter Objectives 719 Introduction 719 The Reference Panel 720 External References Palette 721 Blocks Versus Xrefs 724 Blocks 724 Xrefs 725 Nested Xrefs 725 Attaching an Xref 726 Attachment Versus Overlay 726 Setting the Path Type 726 Insertion Point, Scale, and Rotation 727 Manage Xrefs Icon 727 Layers and Xrefs 729 Changing Xref Layers 729 Managing Xrefs 730 The Right-Click Menu 730 Editing Xrefs 735 Edit Reference In-Place 735 Opening Xrefs 736 Clipping an Xref 736 Binding Parts of an Xref 738 Demand Loading Xrefs 739 Xref Compare 740 Working with Raster Images 741 Attaching Raster Images 741 Managing Images 743 Controlling Image Settings 743 Working with DWF Underlays 745 Attaching DWF Underlays 745 Managing DWF Underlays 746 Controlling DWF Underlay Settings 747 DWF Layer Control 748 Working with DGN Underlays 749 Attaching DGN Underlays 749 Managing DGN Underlays 750 Controlling DGN Underlay Settings 750 Working with PDF Underlays 751 Attaching PDF Underlays 751 Managing PDF Underlays 752 Controlling PDF Underlay Settings 752 Working with Point Cloud References 752 Attaching Point Cloud References 752 Controlling Point Cloud References 754 Managing Point Cloud References 755 Working with Coordination Model References 756 Attaching Coordination Model References 756 Controlling Coordination Model References 756 Transmitting Drawings with References 757 Using eTransmit 757 Configuring the Transmittal 759 Chapter Summary 763 Chapter Test Questions 763 Chapter Projects 766 Chapter 18 Drawing Management Tools and Utilities 771 Chapter Objectives 771 Introduction 771 Drawing File Backup and Recovery 772 File Safety Precautions 772 Recovering Lost or Corrupt Drawings 774 Cleaning Up Drawing Files 776 Working with Different CAD File Formats 779 Exporting to DWF/PDF Files 779 Importing PDF Files 782 Importing and Exporting Other File Types 784 Working with DXF Files 786 DWG Convert Tool 788 Object Linking and Embedding 790 Object Linking Versus Object Embedding 790 Inserting OLE Objects 790 Editing OLE Objects 793 Action Recorder 794 Measure Tools 797 QuickCalc Calculator 798 Using QuickCalc 799 Converting Units 801 Calculator Variables 802 Deleting Duplicate Objects 803 Web-Based Collaboration Tools 804 AutoCAD Web 805 Shared Views 807 Share Drawing 809 Push to Autodesk Docs 810 Traces 810 Markup Import and Markup Assist 811 DWG Compare 812 Count Tool 814 Chapter Summary 816 Chapter Test Questions 816 Appendix A Drafting Standards Overview 819 Appendix B Command Reference 831 Appendix C Command Aliases 861 Appendix D System Variables 865 Appendix E Express Tools 913 Glossary 919 9780138232856 TOC 8/29/2023
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Pearson Education Guide to the Nate Ice Esco Epa608
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Pearson Education (US) Modern Graphics Communication
Book SynopsisFrederick E. Giesecke, founder of the first formal architectural education program in Texas at what is today Texas A&M University, has been described as a wunderkind of the first magnitude. He joined the A&M faculty at the age of 17, after graduating in 1886 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. By the age of 19, was appointed head of A&M's Department of Mechanical Drawing. Having studied architectural drawing and design at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Giesecke also served as head of the Department of Architecture and the official college architect at Texas A&M, designing many campus buildings that are still standing today. Shawna Lockhart is a long-time admirer of Giesecke's legacy and was honored to carry on the commitment to a clear, engaging, thorough, and well-organized presentation that began with Giesecke. Lockhart is known as an early adopter and authority on CAD technologies. She is an instructorTable of ContentsChapter One: The Worldwide Language for Graphic Design Chapter Two: Layouts and Lettering Chapter Three: Visualization and Sketching Chapter Four: Geometry for Modeling and Design Chapter Five: Modeling and Design Chapter Six: Orthographic Projection Chapter Seven: 2d Drawing Representation Chapter Eight: Section Views Chapter Nine: Auxiliary Views Chapter Ten: Modeling for Manufacture and Assembly Chapter Eleven; Dimensioning Chapter Twelve: Tolerancing Chapter Thirteen: Threads, Fasteners, and Springs Chapter Fourteen: Working Drawings Glossary Appendices Index Worksheets
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Penguin Books Ltd The New Science of Strong Materials
Book SynopsisWhy isn''t wood weaker that it is? Why isn''t steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems. During the 250 years up to the 1920s and 1930s they had been answered largely by seeing how materials behaved in practice. But materials continued to do things that they ought not to have done. Only in the last 40 years have these questions begun to be answered by a new approach. Material scientists have started to look more deeply into the make-up of materials. They have found many surprises; above all, perhaps, that how a material behaves depends on how perfectly - or imperfectly - its atoms are arranged. Using both SI and imperial units, Professor Gordon''s account of material science is a demonstration of the sometimes curious and entertaining way
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Penguin Books Ltd Structures
Book SynopsisIn "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures.
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Penguin Putnam Inc In the Heart of the Sea
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Soul of a Chef
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Penguin Books Ltd Turings Cathedral
Book SynopsisGeorge Dyson''s fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing''s Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect of modern life came into being.In 1945 a small group of brilliant engineers and mathematicians gathered at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, determined to build a computer that would make Alan Turing''s theory of a ''universal machine'' reality. Led by the polymath émigré John von Neumann, they created the numerical framework that underpins almost all modern computing - and ensured that the world would never be the same again.George Dyson is a historian of technology whose interests include the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak. He is the author of Baidarka; Project Orion; and Darwin Among the Machines.''Unusual, wonderful, visionary'' Francis Spufford, Guardian''Fascinating . . . the story Dyson tells is intensely human . . . a grippiTrade ReviewRiveting . . . conveys the electrifying sense of possibility that the first computers unleashed . . . a page-turner * New Scientist *Brings to life a myriad cast of extraordinary characters, each of whom contributed to ushering in today's digital age * Daily Telegraph *An engrossing and well-researched book that recounts an important chapter in the history of 20th-century computing -- Evgeny Morozov * Observer *
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Penguin Books Ltd I Know You Got Soul
Book SynopsisIn I Know You Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson writes about the machines that he believes have ''soul''. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it''s not just any old bucket of blots, cogs and bearings that rings his bell. In fact, he''s scoured the length and breadth of the land, plunged into the oceans and taken to the skies in search of machines with that elusive certain something.And along the way he''s discovered:*The safest place to be in the event of nuclear war*Who would win if Superman, James Bond and The Terminator had a fight*The stupidest person he''s ever met*What an old Cornish institution called Arthur has to do with 0898chat lines*And how Jean Claude Van Damme might get eaten by a lion . . .In I Know You Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson tells stories of the geniuses, innovators and crackpots who put the ghost in the machine. From Brunel''s SS Great Britain to the awesomTrade ReviewBrilliant...laugh-out-loud * Daily Telegraph *Outrageously funny...will have you in stitches * Time Out *Very funny...I cracked up laughing on the tube * Evening Standard *
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Penguin Books Ltd Dont Stop Me Now
Book SynopsisJeremy Clarkson puts the pedal to the floor in Don''t Stop Me Now, a collection of his Sunday Times motoring journalism.There''s more to life than cars. Jeremy Clarkson knows this. There is, after all, a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered. So, before he gets on to torque steer and active suspension, he takes time out to consider:* The madness of Galapagos tortoises* The similarities between Jeremy Paxman and AC/DC''s bass guitarist* The problems and perils of being English* God''s dumbest creationThen there are the cars: whether it''s the poxiest little runabout or an exotic, firebreathing supercar, no one does cars like Clarkson. Unmoved by mechanics’ claims and unimpressed by press junkets, he approaches anything on four wheels without fear or favour. What emerges from the ashes is rarely pretty. But always very, very funny.Praise for Jeremy Clarkson''Brilliant . . . laugh-out-l
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Penguin Books Ltd Heat
Book Synopsis''With a dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people, George Monbiot writes about social change with his eyes wide open'' Naomi Klein''A manifesto for change ... The combination of practical detail and creative thinking is immensely impressive'' P. D. Smith, GuardianWe know that climate change is happening. We know that it could, if the worst predictions come true, destroy the conditions which make human life possible. Only one question is now worth asking: can it be stopped? In Heat, George Monbiot shows that it can.In every case, he supports his proposals with a rigorous investigation into what works, what doesn''t, how much it costs and what the problems might be. He wages war on bad ideas as energetically as he promotes good ones. He is not afraid to attack anyone - friend or foe - whose claims are false or whose figures have been fudged. Heat also contains a breath-taking new exposure of the corporationTrade ReviewA dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people ... I never miss reading him. -- Naomi KleinAn impressive piece of investigative journalism -- Rosie Boycott * Mail on Sunday *A book anyone who thinks they know what should be done about global warming must read -- John Gray * New Statesman *At last the global movement has found a vision. * Independent on Sunday *Monbiot's book has an infectious and practical 21st century spirit * Sunday Herald *The combination of practical detail and creative thinking is immensely impressive. * Guardian *One of the best-informed people about climate change ... comprehensive and compelling * The Scotsman *Turns number crunching into inspiration for social change. * Metro *
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Penguin Books Ltd A Man on the Moon
Book SynopsisThe race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their ''giant step'' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. ''A Man on the Moon'' is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme: from the tragedy of the fire in Apollo 1 during a simulated launch, through the euphoria of the first moonwalk, to the discoveries made by the first scientist in space aboard Apollo 17. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the astronauts and team, this is the story of the twentieth century''s greatest human achievement, minute-by-minute, in the words of those who were there.Trade Review'An extraordinary book ... Space, with its limitless boundaries, has the power to inspire, to change lives, to make the impossible happen. Chaikin's superb book demonstrates how' Sunday Times 'A superb account ... Apollo may be the only achievement by which our age is remembered a thousand years from now' - Arthur C. Clarke
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Penguin Books Ltd Fly By Wire
Book SynopsisOn January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane''s pilot Chelsey Sully Sullenberger, managed to glide to a safe landing in the Hudson River. It was an instant media sensation, the The Miracle on the Hudson, and Captain Sully was the hero. But, how much of the success of this dramatic landing can actually be credited to the genius of the pilot? To what extent is the Miracle on the Hudson the result of extraordinary - but not widely known, and in some cases quite controversial - advances in aviation and computer technology over the last twenty years?From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces that have sought to minimize the impact of the revolutionarTrade ReviewA wonderful story expertly told, and the ending is not just happy but uplifting: almost everyone involved comes out of it not just safely but extremely well. Except the geese. Their day totally sucked. * Geoff Dyer, Observer *Enthralling piece of reportage ... concisely written and compelling ... Langewiesche's unblinkered analysis of Sullenberger's five-minute glide into history reveals the more complicated truth behind the creation of a modern hero * Sunday Times *A crisp, meticulously and dramatically told account of the as yet unresolved story of how humans and advanced technology are learning to form a partnership ... [Langewiesche] writes as if his pen has wings, his laptop a pair of General Electric turbofans * Guardian *Langewiesche is at his best ... deconstructing the modern media hero * Financial Times *Brilliant ... Langewiesche explores the approach to this moment, from the flock of Canada geese that wrecked both engines to the expertise of Sullenberger; who used the A320's automated 'fly-by-wire' system to ditch the plane with such success * Independent *
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Penguin Books Ltd Atmosphere of Hope Solutions to the Climate
Book SynopsisA timely intervention on climate change from the author of the hugely influential The Weather Makers.The tools required to avoid a climate disaster already exist. Between emissions cuts and emerging technologies, we can do it. Here Professor Tim Flannery introduces us to the innovative new solutions being developed around the world, which work with the Earth''s systems to combat climate change - and could safeguard our future. ''An important voice in the debate on global warming'' Josh Glancy, Sunday Times''Balances the difficult business of raising alarm about the dangers ahead with proposals for the types of action we need to take now to head off catastrophe tomorrow'' Robin McKie, Guardian ''If you''re not already addicted to Tim Flannery''s writing, discover him now'' Jared Diamond''Thoughtful, candid and - yes - ultimately upbeat, Atmosphere of Hope could not be more timely. It is just the book the world needsTrade ReviewThoughtful, candid and - yes - ultimately upbeat, Atmosphere of Hope could not be more timely. It is just the book the world needs right now. -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth ExtinctionThink Indiana Jones crossed with Charles Darwin * Financial Times *A wonderful writer, an original scientist, and a gifted populariser -- Martin Woollacott * Guardian *If you're not already addicted to Tim Flannery's writing, discover him now -- Jared Diamond
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Penguin Books Ltd The Apple Orchard
Book SynopsisPete Brown is simultaneously allergic to and obsessed by apples. He has written several books on food and drink, including Man Walks into a Pub, Three Sheets to the Wind, and Hops and Glory. His discriminating palate has led him to be a judge in the Great Taste Awards and the Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards, and a frequent contributor to Radio 4's Food Programme.Trade ReviewWonderful, revelatory ... very moving -- Sheila Dillon, BBC Radio 4An absorbing love letter to the English apple tree...lyrical and joyful * The Times Literary Supplement *His ability to laugh at himself, openness to wonder and willingness to go wherever the search takes him make Brown an engaging writer and The Apple Orchard an entertaining journey * Mail on Sunday *A delightful book * Sunday Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Playbook
Book Synopsis''This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful. . . A landmark book'' Brian Eno''Very funny, as satire should be, until you realise it''s deadly serious'' Adam Rutherford, BBC Radio 4 Start the WeekKnowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don''t want you to have it.The Playbook is an exposé of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to spread disinformation and deny the scientific facts - around climate change, public health risks and worker safety - when they don''t suit their agenda.Written in the form of a corporate handbook for tobacco, oil and pharmaceutical company executives, it is a litany of obfuscation techniques, denial, delays and outright lies, including: how to recruit an academic ''expert'' who is willing to compromise their integrity (or is just short of casTrade ReviewThis brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful. It's a handbook to show you all their tricks - with working examples. If you want to be a vile, greedy capitalist, this how-to book will be a great help. And if you want to identify vile greedy capitalists it will show you how to recognise them. It's a landmark book -- Brian EnoA training manual and fake guidebook for companies. . . very funny, as satire should be, until you realise it's deadly serious -- Adam Rutherford * BBC Radio 4 Start the Week *Jacquet has found a brilliantly effective way of revealing just how extensive and systematic corporate strategies of doubt and denial are - by creating a Machiavellian secret guide for executives worried about what the latest science might mean for their business. Far more entertaining, but also far more disturbing than a more sober historical account or polemic would be * The Observer *If you feel exhausted from constantly taking the high road, The Playbook offers an enticing alternative . . . with Jacquet's dry humor suffusing each chapter, the book's tongue-in-cheek format is a chilling realization that the villains in The Playbook are extraordinarily banal. The tactics that enable their misconduct have been recycled across decades * Scientific American *This whip-smart and delightfully snarky exposé gives readers the tools to recognize and refute corporate deception . . . Fashioned as a strategy manual, Jacquet's satirical advice explains . . . how to challenge the existence of a problem, the integrity of those who raise it, and the need for policies to address it * Publishers Weekly *A savage satirical stab at corporate malfeasance draws blood. . . Jacquet takes an original approach to indicting the ethical vacuum that besets much of big business. . . A sharp warning to corporations that deep pockets and armies of accomplices won't stall a reckoning forever * Kirkus Reviews *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Missing Ingredient
Book Synopsis''Brilliant and original ... From slow feasts to fast food, Linford shows that, no matter what we are cooking, time is of the essence'' - Bee Wilson, Sunday TimesThe Missing Ingredient is about what makes good food, and the first book to consider the intrinsic yet often forgotten role of time in creating the flavours and textures we love.Written through a series of encounters with ingredients, producers, cooks, shopkeepers and chefs, exploring everything from the brief period in which sugar caramelises, or the days required in the crucial process of fermentation, to the months of slow ripening and close attention that make a great cheddar, or the years needed for certain wines to reach their peak, Jenny Linford shows how, time and again, time itself is the invisible ingredient. From the patience and dedication of many food producers in fields and storehouses around the world to the rapid reactions required of any home cook at the hob, this book allows us to better understand our culinary lives.Trade ReviewBrilliant and original ... From slow feasts to fast food, Linford shows that, no matter what we are cooking, time is of the essence' -- Bee Wilson * Sunday Times *A compelling book...Time is the unacknowledged genie of the kitchen. The Missing Ingredient considers the meanings that go beyond quantitative measures -- Darra Goldstein * TLS *Thoughtful, lively and original. No one has approached food in regard to time before -- Jill Norman, Food and Wine WriterInteresting...clever...revelatory -- Rachel Cooke * Guardian *Thoughtful and engaging * Waitrose Weekend *Beautifully written and highly original. Jenny Linford scrutinises time-honoured food production methods and cookery techniques through the often ignored lens of time. A gently informative, almost lyrical volume for our impatient times -- Joanna Blythman, author of Shopped: The Shocking Power Of British SupermarketsJenny Linford has created something quite remarkable: a treatise on the single most vital and most overlooked element of food and cooking that's as page-turning as a thriller. It's hard to believe nobody has tackled the concept of 'time' before, and Jenny has done it more than justice. A glorious, essential addition to every food lover's book shelves. -- Marina O’Loughlin, restaurant critic
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Penguin Books Ltd The Radical Potter
Book Synopsis*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022*A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram HuntJosiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and workshops in Stoke-on-Trent, he revolutionized the production of ceramics in Georgian Britain by marrying technology with design, manufacturing efficiency and retail flair. He transformed the luxury markets not only of London, Liverpool, Bath and Dublin but of America and the world, and helping to usher in a mass consumer society. Tristram Hunt calls him ''the Steve Jobs of the eighteenth century''.But Wedgwood was radical in his mind and politics as well as in his designs. He campaigned for free trade and religious toleration, read pioneering papers to the Royal Society and was a member of the celebrated Lunar Society of Birmingham. Most significantly, he created the ceramic ''Emancipation Badge'', depicting a slave in chains and inscribed ''Am I Not a Man and a Brother?'' that became the symbol of the abolitionist movement.Tristram Hunt''s hugely enjoyable new biography, strongly based on Wedgwood''s notebooks, letters and the words of his contemporaries, brilliantly captures the energy and originality of Wedgwood and his extraordinary contribution to the transformation of eighteenth-century Britain.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable and impassioned book. Josiah Wedgwood innovated across boundaries of technology and art and taste, commerce and scientific enquiry, and Tristram Hunt makes the powerful case for rediscovering his humane entrepreneurial spirit. The Radical Potter brings Wedgwood's protean energy alive for a new generation and I loved it. -- Edmund de Waalimpassioned, wide-ranging ... Hunt's sympathetic, engaged and finely written biography makes it clear that [Wedgwood] was a one-off, and a genius. -- David Horspool * Spectator *fabulously unputdownable ... In parts it reads like a thriller. -- Judith Woods * Telegraph *Wedgwood's remarkable story has been told in many biographies over the years. The great contribution of The Radical Potter, Tristram Hunt's new book, is to place him in the context of the rapid economic and social changes during his lifetime that helped make his success possible. -- Richard Lambert * Financial Times *this brisk and highly readable biography ... places Wedgwood in a dissenting tradition that goes back to the civil wars ... It is a timely tale. -- Paul Lay * The Times *engrossing ... Hunt, as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017, is uniquely fitted to write this book. -- John Carey * Sunday Times *superb ... this delicious, meticulously researched, wide-ranging but never long-winded book made me admire Tristram Hunt as well as Josiah Wedgwood. -- Ysenda Maxtone Graham * Daily Mail *Hunt is exquisitely alive to all the contradictions in Wedgwood's achievements ... a rich portrait of the charismatic but contradictory man who made Georgian Britain the most stylish country in the world -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *One of the achievements of Tristram Hunt's biography... is too bring into view the commercial and moral instincts of the man behind the powerhouse ... Wedgwood emerges from this books as a man of voracious interest in the world. Canny and determined, he had both strong beliefs and the adaptability that marks any great innovator. Hunt ... is as interested in what the man can tell us about the times as the times meant for the man. -- Sarah Watling * Literary Review *Tristram Hunt, one of our finest historians, has done a magnificent job in The Radical Potter. Every chapter made me cheer and halloo. -- A. N. Wilson * Spectator Books of the Year *this attractively packaged ... splendid... biography of ceramics impresario Josiah Wedgwood ... reminds us not only of what has been lost in terms of manufacturing, but what can be regained. -- Jacqueline Riding * Country Life *Hunt performs the important task of telling the great potter's story clearly and accessibly ... Wedgwood the man should be as famous as Wedgwood the brand. That he is not might be due to his business - there are more heroic and glamorous trades than making pots - and to the national tendency to undervalue manufacturing. Hunt's book should help to correct that imbalance. -- Rowan Moore * The Observer *The Radical Potter sees Tristram Hunt argue that Wedgwood was epicentral to the transformation of Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries ... This is a remarkable book from a historian at the top of his game. -- Andrew Roberts * BBC History *Confident ... Hunt makes sure Wedgwood's pots stay at the heart of his biography -- Tanya Harrod * Prospect *easily the best account of that multi-faceted genius -- A. N. Wilson * The Times *The indefatigable one-legged artist and abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood personified the optimism of Georgian Britain. Hunt brings him brilliantly to life. -- Iona McLaren * Daily Telegraph Books of the Year *Josiah Wedgwood was "the Steve Jobs" of the 18th century, according to Tristram Hunt, the historian and V&A director. Wedgwood, of modest background but expansive inventive genius, turned a Staffordshire pottery firm into a global company, one that showed that Britain could make high-quality porcelain, a high-demand product in the new age of tea drinking. Not bad for a man who couldn't turn a wheel because childhood disease disabled one of his legs. He was nicknamed "Owd Wooden Leg" by his workers - and referred to the day he lost his limb as "Saint Amputation Day". -- Robbie Millen * The Times Books of the Year *Tristram Hunt, in The Radical Potter, underlines brilliantly the consumerism and politics of the age in the character of Josiah Wedgwood, in whom we can see all the energy of the era - the campaign for abolition, the birth of international trade, the stirrings of the industrial revolution, the combination of mass production and aesthetic sense. -- Catherine Ostler * Aspects of History Books of the Year *
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Penguin Books Ltd Slow Rise A BreadMaking Adventure
Book Synopsis''Charming, important . . . a journey of discovery'' TelegraphOver the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family. In returning to this pre-industrial practice, he tells the fascinating story of our relationship with bread: from the domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent at the dawn of civilization, to the rise of mass-produced loaves and the resurgence in homebaking today.Gathering knowledge and wisdom from experts around the world - farmers on the banks of the Nile, harvesters in the American Midwest and Parisian boulangers - Penn reconnects the joy of making and eating bread with a deep appreciation for the skill and patience required to cultivate its key ingredient. This book is a celebration of the millennia-old craft of breadmaking, and how it is woven into the story of humanity.''Compelling, vivid . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by theTrade ReviewA modern day Thoreau . . . Rob Penn has been hand scything wheat in the Nile Delta and growing his own heritage grains * Great British Food Magazine *Compelling, vivid . . . the cyclist and former lawyer explores his enthusiasm for sourdough bread, and forgotten "landrace" wheats, as he supervises their planting, harvesting and the milling of the grain that would go into his loaf . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by the new bread geeks -- Dan Lepard * Spectator *A wide-ranging, gloriously obsessive odyssey ... a wonderful insight into the history, culture and sheer hard work taken to make this most fundamental of human foods -- Jenny Linford * author of The Missing Ingredient *Rob Penn's enthusiasm for what he calls 'the most symbolically evocative foodstuff' is so infectious and persuasive ... a pleasingly evocative tale, told with the same rich descriptions and wistful asides that Penn bakes into all of his books * Geographical *Charming, important ... a journey of discovery -- Boudicca Fox-Leonard * Telegraph *Fascinating, compelling . . . Robert Penn's engaging account encompasses every aspect of bread, from how it fuelled entire empires to which grains he could grow on his own allotment -- David Ellis * Evening Standard *People keep rediscovering the joy of bread. In truth it never went away; it was just subverted by pappy cheaper bread ... Rob Penn celebrates what we can do to reverse this culinary serfdom -- Tim Lang * author of Feeding Britain *
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Penguin Books Ltd Four Points of the Compass
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Singularity Is Near
Book Synopsis“Startling in scope and bravado.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times“Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.” —Los Angeles Times“Elaborate, smart and persuasive.” —The Boston Globe“A pleasure to read.” —The Wall Street JournalOne of CBS News’s Best Fall Books of 2005 • Among St Louis Post-Dispatch’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2005 • One of Amazon.com’s Best Science Books of 2005A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity is Nearer who Bill Gates calls “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence”For over tTrade Review“Anyone can grasp Mr. Kurzweil’s main idea: that mankind’s technological knowledge has been snowballing, with dizzying prospects for the future. The basics are clearly expressed. But for those more knowledgeable and inquisitive, the author argues his case in fascinating detail . . . . The Singularity Is Near is startling in scope and bravado.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times“Filled with imaginative, scientifically grounded speculation . . . . The Singularity Is Near is worth reading just for its wealth of information, all lucidly presented . . . . [It’s] an important book. Not everything that Kurzweil predicts may come to pass, but a lot of it will, and even if you don’t agree with everything he says, it’s all worth paying attention to.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer“[An] exhilarating and terrifyingly deep look at where we are headed as a species . . . . Mr. Kurzweil is a brilliant scientist and futurist, and he makes a compelling and, indeed, a very moving case for his view of the future.”—The New York Sun“Compelling.”—San Jose Mercury News“Kurzweil links a projected ascendance of artificial intelligence to the future of the evolutionary process itself. The result is both frightening and enlightening . . . . The Singularity Is Near is a kind of encyclopedic map of what Bill Gates once called ‘the road ahead.’”—The Oregonian“A clear-eyed, sharply-focused vision of the not-so-distant future.”—The Baltimore Sun“This book offers three things that will make it a seminal document. 1) It brokers a new idea, not widely known, 2) The idea is about as big as you can get: the Singularity—all the change in the last million years will be superceded by the change in the next five minutes, and 3) It is an idea that demands informed response. The book’s claims are so footnoted, documented, graphed, argued, and plausible in small detail, that it requires the equal in response. Yet its claims are so outrageous that if true, it would mean . . . well . . . the end of the world as we know it, and the beginning of utopia. Ray Kurzweil has taken all the strands of the Singularity meme circulating in the last decades and has united them into a single tome which he has nailed on our front door. I suspect this will be one of the most cited books of the decade. Like Paul Ehrlich’s upsetting 1972 book Population Bomb, fan or foe, it’s the wave at epicenter you have to start with.”—Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired“Really, really out there. Delightfully so.”—Businessweek.com“Stunning, utopian vision of the near future when machine intelligence outpaces the biological brain and what things may look like when that happens . . . . Approachable and engaging.”—the unofficial Microsoft blog“One of the most important thinkers of our time, Kurzweil has followed up his earlier works . . . with a work of startling breadth and audacious scope.”—newmediamusings.com“An attractive picture of a plausible future.”—Kirkus Reviews“Kurzweil is a true scientist—a large-minded one at that . . . . What’s arresting isn’t the degree to which Kurzweil’s heady and bracing vision fails to convince—given the scope of his projections, that’s inevitable—but the degree to which it seems downright plausible.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“[T]hroughout this tour de force of boundless technological optimism, one is impressed by the author’s adamantine intellectual integrity . . . . If you are at all interested in the evolution of technology in this century and its consequences for the humans who are creating it, this is certainly a book you should read.”—John Walker, inventor of Autodesk, in Fourmilab Change Log“Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence. His intriguing new book envisions a future in which information technologies have advanced so far and fast that they enable humanity to transcend its biological limitations—transforming our lives in ways we can’t yet imagine.”—Bill Gates“If you have ever wondered about the nature and impact of the next profound discontinuities that will fundamentally change the way we live, work, and perceive our world, read this book. Kurzweil’s Singularity is a tour de force, imagining the unimaginable and eloquently exploring the coming disruptive events that will alter our fundamental perspectives as significantly as did electricity and the computer.”—Dean Kamen, recipient of the National Medal of Technology, physicist, and inventor of the first wearable insulin pump, the HomeChoice portable dialysis machine, the IBOT Mobility System, and the Segway Human Transporter“One of our leading AI practitioners, Ray Kurzweil, has once again created a ‘must read’ book for anyone interested in the future of science, the social impact of technology, and indeed the future of our species. His thought-provoking book envisages a future in which we transcend our biological limitations, while making a compelling case that a human civilization with superhuman capabilities is closer at hand than most people realize.”—Raj Reddy, founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and recipient of the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery“Ray’s optimistic book well merits both reading and thoughtful response. For those like myself whose views differ from Ray’s on the balance of promise and peril, The Singularity Is Near is a clear call for a continuing dialogue to address the greater concerns arising from these accelerating possibilities.”—Bill Joy, cofounder and former chief scientist, Sun Microsystems
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Penguin Books Ltd My Inventions and Other Writings
Book SynopsisNikola Tesla''s life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor''s mind knew no limits and his incredible sense of possibility rings through his memoir. This authorative volume of My Inventions includes three additional articles by Tesla which were published in The Electrical Experimenter magazine and represent the breadth of his interests: ''Tesla would pour Lightning from Airships to Consume Foe'' (1916), ''The Action of The Eye'' (1893), ''The Problem of Increasing Human Energy'' (1900). Samantha Hunt, author of The Invention of Everything Else, contributes an introduction to Tesla''s works, separating fact from fiction (there are published works out there that attest Tesla was an alien), while maintaining the natural awe of Tesla''s eccentric existence.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Poison Squad
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Penguin Putnam Inc What Technology Wants
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Quest
Book Synopsis“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —Wall Street Journal“It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” —The Financial TimesThis long-awaited successor to Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Prize provides an essential, overarching narrative of global energy, the principal engine of geopolitical and economic changeA master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic c
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Penguin Books Ltd The Idea Factory
Book SynopsisFrom its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it''s hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn''t been touched by Bell Labs.In The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century''s most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men-Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs.Today, when the drive to invent has become a mantra, Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our understanding of the challenges and solutions to technological innovation. Here, after all, was where the foundational ideas on the management of innovation were born.Trade Review“Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . . The Idea Factory explores one of the most critical issues of our time: What causes innovation?” —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review“Riveting . . . Mr. Gertner’s portraits of Kelly and the cadre of talented scientists who worked at Bell Labs are animated by a journalistic ability to make their discoveries and inventions utterly comprehensible—indeed, thrilling—to the lay reader. And they showcase, too, his novelistic sense of character and intuitive understanding of the odd ways in which clashing or compatible personalities can combine to foster intensely creative collaborations.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times“One of the best innovation-focused books I've read: It's a wide-ranging, detailed, and deeply fascinating look at the New Jersey lab which has been churning out useful discoveries since the early 1900s.” —The Boston Globe“Fascinating history . . . the research behind The Idea Factory is astonishing.” —Slate Book Review“Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers fascinating evidence for those seeking to understand how a society should best invest its research resources.” —The Wall Street Journal“An expansive new history . . . does an impressive job of illuminating many of Bell Labs’ key technological triumphs.” —Wired.com
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Penguin Publishing Group The Age of Edison Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
Trade Review"Mr. Freeberg's broad research adds up to a vivid social history with parallels for today's technology innovators and for those who wish to increase their number. It underscores the point that the work of Edison and other pioneers of light took place in an unusual setting, a period in which American invention was remarkably active and fertile... The Age of Edison comes at a fitting time, the close of the era of the incandescent light. When the old stocks of incandescents run out, it may be the end of pleasant illumination at a cheap price—that is, until another Thomas Edison finds a way."—The Wall Street Journal“Freeberg takes us on a captivating intellectual adventure that offers long-forgotten stories of the birth pangs of the electrical age that are amusing, surprising and tragic.”—Washington Post"One of the many pleasures of Age of Edison, Ernest Freeberg's engaging history of the spread of electricity throughout the United States, is that he captures the excitement and wonder of those early days, when 'a machine that could create enough cheap and powerful light to hold the night at bay' promised 'liberation from one of the primordial limits imposed by nature on the human will'... Freeberg's thoughtful and thought-provoking book quietly suggests that, to properly distribute and control such a powerful force, commercial initiative and a sense of civic responsibility were equally essential."—Los Angeles Times"A dynamo of a book powered by an infectious enthusiasm for the can-do spirit of Edison and rival geniuses racing to turn night into day. Freeberg writes with verve and uncommon clarity, all the while deeply enriching our understanding of an age raring to embrace modernity."—A. Roger Ekirch, author of At Day's Close: Night in Times Past"Ernest Freeberg's fascinating account of the arrival and impact of electric lighting in America fills an important gap in the history of this subject. This well-written and insightful book should appeal both to scholars and lay readers, all of whom will learn much about the complex history of the adoption of this new technology."—Paul Israel, author of Edison: A Life of Invention; General Editor, The Thomas Edison Papers"Freeberg's deft social history explores a remarkable period in America's cultural and economic development. By understanding the post-Edison world we can see how nightlife really began; how our workdays grew considerably longer; and how the urban gloom was extinguished by the commerce of illumination."—Jon Gertner, author of The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American InnovationOutstanding Academic Title of 2014, Choice
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Penguin Putnam Inc Vacation Guide to the Solar System Science for
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