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Alternative Sources of Energy

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The topic of Alternative Energy has now assumed its rightful place with multiple threats to the environment, pollution, climate crises and an ongoing list..

This is not a resource of last resort, but should have been incorporated into the mainstream decades ago. Only recently have municipalities started giving credits for  feeding back energy to the grid.  This input is a small fraction, however, since the vast majority feel that since they h

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Notes in Operations Research

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Operations Research was given an impetus in India when Prof P.C. Mahalanobis set up units of the Indian Ststistical Institute to deal with Planning Data. One of the tools used was OR and experts were invited from USSR and USA among other countries to share insights with Planning in their own countires. USSR had already applied Planning since before WWII in 1928, for their 5 year plans, whereas OR was developed duirng WWII by the allies. Russia's initial goal w

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Engineering Management

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Engineering Management is a subject now taught in many engineering colleges in India. As with the Engineering curriculum, it has expanded to encompass many other related sujects under its umbrella,so much so that many aspects of TQM (Total quality Management) has also begun to be incorporated in part or whole.

Several worked out problerms and questions have been included. It is hoped the book would be helpful to students.

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Kinematics of Machinery

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 The theory of machines and Kinematics of mechanisms is an essential subject in the syllabus of many Universities and colleges in India, especially in Engineering and design.  The efficient design of linkages, followers, gear trains and many others contributes to weight minimisation and energy loss reduction. It is a step towards sustainable manufacture. With the use of robotic machinery becoming commonplace in produciton it is necessary to reduce en

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Finite Element Analysis

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 The subject of Finite Elements has its origins in Truss and Beam design in Civil and Mechanical design of Structures. In the next few decades it founf application in the Automotive industrt and then into Fluid Mechanucs and CFD along with Heat Transfer. Today it is an indispensable tool in Design. It is basically an energy minimisation technique.

Students should find this easy to understand as the concepts are gradually introduced without complic

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Non Conventional Energy Systems

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The topic of global warming has reached epidemic proportions.  The lay public, if not studentys need to be informed of the alternatives to fossil fuels, coal and oil. This collection of lectures designed for students is readable by the general reader also.

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Notes on Turbomachinery

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The subject of Turbomachines and Pumps is an important one and is included in most Engineering syllabi of Indian Universities.  This book contains notes unit wise for the course at VTU, along with question banks and worked out problems. Some papers from foreign universities are added for comparison.

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MIT 8.02 Lectures and Notes

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The book covers the last part of the MIT Online course on Electricity and Magnetisam (8,02).  It overlaps with many other curricular courses at various colleges in the USA and India.

At the California Institute of Technology, in the 1960s and 1970s, the Feynman Lectures on Physics was compulsory reading for all Caltech students and consisted of Volumes 1,2,3 encompassing the course Ph1a,b,c and Ph 2 a,b,c.

Advanced graduate level concepts

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SUMMARY of COURSE LECTURES WITH NOTES (II)

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This is the second in a series of summaries and notes of the popular course at MIT -- Electricity and Magnetism. 

It roughly corresponds to Ph 2a and Ph 2b at Caltech (California Institute of Techology, Pasadena, Ca, USA)., although the time frame is separated by at least 50 years.

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SUMMARY of COURSE LECTURES WITH NOTES

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The reader may certainly have heard of the Feynman lectures on Physics ( 3 volumes covering the 1st and 2nd years of the UG curricula at Caltech).  The course was developed using a pedagogy that undergraduates could assimilate the topics of Quantum Mechanics without going through the classical mechanics prelogue.

Other schools like MIT did not follow this method and followed a more traditioal route.  Courses like Mechanics and electromagnetic

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Practice Problems in Statistics and Data Reduction

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Data has become a part of day to day life. With the onset of high power mobile computing, it sits in the palm of the hand, and there is no escaping the need for data reduction. From Tax computations, stock market investing,  planning for future of childrens career and education, all need mastery of the tools for data analysis and reduction in a short time. The days of laborious punching of cards, then waiting days for the results are now like a bad dream.

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Thermodynamics and Heat Engines

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This is a collection of lecture notes and exam problems with question banks.

The focus is on the requred topics of Thermodynamics and Heat Engines for many Engineering streams at Indian and foreign Universities.

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Assorted Problems in Engineering

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Engineering Colleges are churning out students who repeat standard solutions in exams.  Thinking out of the box is seldom encouraged.

The  New Global Economy needs innovation and ability to adapt on the run to rapidly changing technology.  Template solutions may not work though a basic grounding is always essential.  The key to success in Academics and Practise is to keep modifying and changing strategies and solution methods. 

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Finite Element Methods

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"Finite Elements" is an essential  subject in most Indian Technological and Applied Science syllabi .  The  availability of computer  programs has made it quite easy to plug in data and churn out a solution.  These solutions may not always be correct, however. Blind reliance on such canned programs may lead to costly mishaps. In order to appreciate the workings of such methods the user needs to have a good grasp of the theory, for whic

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Mechanics of Solids

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The subject of Engineering and particularly Mechanical Engineering has as a basic components the study and design of Materials, Strength and design of Structures and Machine elements.  All these require a study of the topic known as SOM or Stregth of Materials.  Together with this come that of Mechanics of Solids, which is a closer analysis of the materials and their strengths, without which structures would not be able to stand for appreciable amoun

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Phase Transformations in Porous Media

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Phase Transformations are a common phenomenon and have been long used in applications for Industrial use like Steam Power, Railroad transport, Ships, generating electricity,  and earlier for cars and even bicycles.  Steam was the main source of power for Industry and Transportation for decades and powered the Industrial FRevolution

A coupled set of equations describing heat and mass transfer during phase transformation is formulated incor

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Ocean Energy and Renewable Resources

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In the increasing effort to combat pollution, waste disposal ecological imbalances and consequent global temperature rise, we need to look at every source of alternate energy.  Every drop counts.  

Ocean energy is enormous, a fraction of this is witnessed during storms and typhoons. Tidal waves routinely crash over sea barriers and threaten to destroy countries and communities on small islands.

While it may be too late to complet

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Computer Aided Manufacture and CIM

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CIM or Computer Integrated Manufacture is now included as a subject in several curricula in Indian Technical Institutions.

Since the advent of the 8 bit microprocessor, automation has slowly replaced manual control of machine tools, and  has also led to the interfacing of PC's and Work stations with Machines in factories.

With the advent of high speed internet and IOT the field of CIM has now become more important because factories and wor

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Robotics and Automation

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Robotics and Automation, CIM, CADCAM, FEM, FEA are all inter related topics.  These subjects are the some of the more time consuming and study intensive subjects at VTU and JNTU and other Indian Universities.

Students typically can grasp the definitions and terminology easily but have  more difficulty in grasping the various transformations and matrix combinations used to describe robot motions. 

A knowledge of matrix methods is

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Problems and Solutions in Mechanical Engineering

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There are several textbooks appearing meant for specific syllabi of various Universities. However, the books which cover the subject in a challenging and broad way appealing to the curious and inquisitive student are either highly priced, or rare.  In this work, I have attempted to use problems with some solutions which are drawn from my Indian experience and relying on my training in California, USA, where rote learning is discouraged.  For a de

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Renewable Energy Resources and Strategies

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An overview with descriptions of the alternatives to fossil fuels is provided.  Sufficient details are given to enable the reader to proceeed with constructing or developing items like a biogas digester, designing a wind turbine, solar heater and other simple technologies.  Alternative sources of Energy are not Hi-Tech,and even a layman can understand the principles involved. 

The Enabling of Rural Technologies should be the aim of even

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