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The Engineeirng Handbook, ed. Richard C. Dorf, CRC Press, 2000.

SECTION I Statics

1. Force System Resultants and Equilibrium
2. Centroids and Distributed Forces
3. Moments of Inertia

SECTION II Mechanics of Materials

4. Reactions
5. Bending Streses in Beams
6. Shear Streses in Beams
7. Shear and Moment Diagrams
8. Columns
9. Pressure Vessels
10. Axial Loads and Torsion
11. Fracture Mechanics

SECTION III Dynamics and Vibrations

12. Dynamics of Particles: Kinematics and Kinetics
13. Dynamics of Ridid Bodies: Kinematics and Kinetics
14. Free Vibration, Natural Frequencies, and Mode Shapes
15. Forced Vibrations
16. Lumped versus Distribued Paramter Systems
17. Applications of Structural Dynamics Principles
18. Computer Simulation and Nomographgs
19. Test Equipment and Measuring Systems

SECTION IV Kinematics and Mechanisms

SECTION V Structures

25. Loads
26. Wind Effects
27. Earthquake Effects
28. Structural Analysis
29. Structural Steel
30. Concrete
31. Timber
32. Masonry Design

SECTION VI Fluid Mechanics

33. Incompressible Fluids
34. Compressible Fluids
35. The Rheology of Non-Newtonian Fluids
36. Airfoils/Wings
37. Boundary Layers
38. Valves
39. Pumps and Fans
40. Two-Phase Flow
41. Basic Mixing Principles for Various Types of Fluid Mixing Applications
42. Fluid Measurements

SECTION VII Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

SECTION VIII Separation Processes

SECTION IX Fuels and Energy Conversion

SECTION X Kinetics and Reaction Engineering

SECTION XI Geotechnical

78. Soil Mechanics

SECTION XII Transportation

SECTION XIII Ocean and Coastal Engineering

84. Shallow Water and Deep Water Engineering

SECTION XIV Environmental Systems and Management

85. Drinking Water Treatment
86. Air Pollution
87. Wastewater Treatment and Disposal
88. Solid Wastes
89. Hazardous Waste Management
90. Soil Remediation

SECTION XV Water Resources Engineering

91. Hydraulics
92. Hydrology
93. Sedimenatation

SECTION XVI Linear Systems and Models

94. Transfer Functions and Laplace Transforms
95. Block Diagrams
96. Signal Flow Analysis
97. Linear State-Space Models
98. Frequency Response
99. Convolution Integral
100. Stability Analysis
101. z Transform and Digital Systems

SECTION XVII Circuits

102. Passive Components
103. RL, RC, and RLC Circuits
104. Node Equations and Mesh Equations
105. Sinusoidal Excitation and Phasors
106. Three-Phase Circuits
107. Filters (Passive)
108. Power Distribution
109. Grounding and Shielding

SECTION XVIII Electronics

110. Operational Amplifiers
111. Active RC Filters
112. Diodes and Transistors
113. Analog Integrated Circuits
114. Optoelectronic Devices
116. Power Electronics
116. A/D and D/A Converters
117. Superconductivity

SECTION XIX Digital Systems

SECTION XX Communications and Signal Processing

124. Transforms and Fast Algorithms
125. Digital Filters
126. Modulation and Detection
127. Coding
128. Computer Communication Networks
129. Satelites and Aerospace
130. Mobile and Cellular Radio Communications
131. Optical Communications

SECTION XXI Computers

SECTION XXII Measurement and Instrumentation

137. Sensors and Transducers
138. Measurement Errors and Accuracy
139. Signal Conditioning
140. Telemetry
141. Recording Instruments
142. Bioinstrumentation

SECTION XXIII Surveying

148. Surveying Computations
149. Sattelite Surveying
150. Surveying Applications for Geographic Information Systems
151. Remote Sensing

SECTION XXIV Control Systems

152. Feedback
153. Root Locus
154. Nyquist Criterion and Stability
155. System Compensation
156. Process Control
157. Digital Control
158. Robots and Control
159. State Variable Feedback

SECTION XXV Manufacturing

160. Types of Manuracturing

SECTION XXVI Aeronautical and Aerospace

SECTION XXVII Safety

SECTION XXVIII Engineering Economics and Management

SECTION XXIX Materials Engineering

SECTION XXX Mathematics

196. General Mathematics
197. Linear Algebra Matrices
198. Vector Algebra and Calculus
199. Complex Variables
200. Difference Equations
201. Differential Equations
202. Integral Equations
203. Approximation Methods
204. Integral Transforms
205. Chaos, Fractals, and Julia Sets
206. Calculus of Variations
207. Probability and Statistics
208. Optimization
209. Numerical Methods
210. Dimensional Analysis
211. Computer Graphics Visualization