Machinery's Handbook Guide - Companion to Machinery's Handbook 29 PDF

The Purpose Of This Book

An engineering handbook is essential equipment for practically all engineers, machine designers, draftsmen, tool engineers and skilled mechanics in machine shops and toolrooms. Such a book, with its tables and general data, saves time and labor. To obtain the full value of any handbook, however, the user must know how to apply the tables, formulas, and other data, when required.

One purpose of this Guide, which is based on MACHINERY'S HANDBOOK, is to show by examples, solutions, and test questions typical applications of HANDBOOK information and to familiarize engineering students and other users with the HANDBOOK'S contents. To this end, cross references to page numbers of the HANDBOOK and the HANDBOOK CD-ROM are interspersed throughout this Guide. A third objective is to provide test questions and drill work that will enable the HANDBOOK user, through practice, to obtain the required information quickly and easily.

This Guide is also available as a separate "activation" purchase with MACHINERY'S HANDBOOK CD-ROM. In addition to containing the same contents as the book, the electronic Guide has "live" clickable links to pages, tables, diagrams and figures, and equations in the HANDBOOK CD-ROM. Like the HANDBOOK CDROM, the electronic Guide contains numerous web enabled "live interactive equations."

MACHINERY'S HANDBOOK, as with all other handbooks, presents information in condensed form so that a large variety of subjects can be covered in a single volume. Because of this condensed treatment, any engineering handbook must be primarily a work of reference rather than a textbook, and the practical application of some parts will not always be apparent, especially to those who have had little experience in engineering work. The questions and examples in this book are intended not only to supplement some of the HANDBOOK material, but also to stimulate interest both in those parts that are used frequently and in the more special sections that may be very valuable even though seldom required.