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Introductory Probability
Charles Grinstead & J. Laurie Snell · Dartmouth & Swarthmore Universities
This text is designed for an introductory probability course taken by sophomores, juniors, and seniors in mathematics, the physical and social sciences, engineering, and computer science. It presents a thorough treatment of probability ideas and techniques necessary for a firm understanding of the subject. The text can be used in a variety of course lengths, levels, and areas of emphasis.
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Structural Mechanics
Tomasz Wierzbicki · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This text covers the fundamental concepts of structural mechanics with applications to marine, civil, and mechanical structures. Topics include analysis of small deflections of beams, moderately large deflections of beams, columns, cables, and shafts; elastic and plastic buckling of columns, thin walled sections and plates; exact and approximate methods; energy methods; principle of virtual work; introduction to failure analysis of structures.
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Python Programming
OpenStax · LibreTexts
Introduction to Python Programming provides a comprehensive foundation in programming concepts and skills, and it is aligned to the scope of most introductory courses. A wide array of scenarios, contexts, and problems reflect programming applications in many disciplines and careers. The offering is suitable for a diverse learner audience, including those pursuing computer science, business, science, social science, statistics, data science, and related areas of study and employment.
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Physical Modeling in MATLAB
Allen B. Downey · Olin College
Modeling and simulation are powerful tools for explaining the world, making predictions, designing things that work, and making them work better. Learning to use these tools can be difficult; this book is my attempt to make the experience as enjoyable and productive as possible. By reading this book—and working on the exercises—you will learn some programming, some modeling, and some simulation. With basic programming skills, you can create models for a wide range of physical systems.
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Operational Amplifiers: Theory and Practice
James K. Roberge · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Feedback control is an important technique that is used in many modern electronic and electromechanical systems. The successful inclusion of this technique improves performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness of many designs. In this series of lectures we introduce the analytical concepts that underlie classical feedback system design. The application of these concepts is illustrated by a variety of experiments and demonstration systems to reinforce the value of the analytic methods.
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Ultrafast Optics
Franz X. Kaertner · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This text covered issues regarding ultrafast optics including: Generation, propagation and applications of ultrashort pulses (nano-, pico-, femto-, attosecond pulses); Linear and nonlinear pulse shaping processes: Optical solitons, Pulse compression; Laser principles: Single- and multi-mode laser dynamics, Q-switching, Active and passive mode-locking; Pulse characterization: Autocorrelation, FROG, SPIDER; Noise in mode-locked lasers and its limitations in measurements; Laser amplifiers and other
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Electromagnetics I
Steven W. Ellingson · Virginia Tech
This book is intended to serve as a primary textbook for a one-semester introductory course in undergraduate engineering electromagnetics, including the following topics: electric and magnetic fields; electromagnetic properties of materials; electromagnetic waves; and devices that operate according to associated electromagnetic principles including resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers, generators, and transmission lines.
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Introduction to Programming using Fortran 95/2003/2008
Ed Jorgensen · University of Navada, Las Vegas
This text provides an introduction to programming and problem solving using the Fortran 95/2003/2008 programming language. This introduction is geared for non computer science majors. As such, this text is not a complete, comprehensive guide to the Fortran 95/2003/2008 programming language. The primary focus is on an introduction to problem solving and algorithm development. As such, many details of the Fortran 95/2203/2008 language are omitted.
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Complex Methods for the Sciences
Y. D. Chong · Nanyang Technological University
An introductory course in mathematical methods for science and engineering students. Topics covered include complex analysis, contour integration, Fourier analysis, and Green's function methods. Mathematical methods are illustrated with examples drawn from physics, with a focus on oscillations and waves. These notes are also available in the form of Jupyter notebooks on Github (GPLv3).
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Statistical Analysis of Data for Engineers
Joshua Steimel · Cal Poly Humbolt
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Digital Circuit Projects - An Overview of Digital Circuits Through Implementing Integrated Circuits
Charles W. Kann III · Gettysburg College
Digital circuits, often called Integrated Circuits or ICs, are the central building blocks of a Central Processing Unit (CPU). To understand how a computer works, it is essential to understand the digital circuits which make up the CPU. This text introduces the most important of these digital circuits; adders, decoders, multiplexers, D flip-flops, and simple state machines.
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Sustainability - A Comprehensive Foundation
Heriberto Cabezas · Georgia College and State University
This text is designed to introduce the reader to the essential concepts of sustainability. This subject is of vital importance seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet but is only peripherally served by existing college textbooks.
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A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers
Russell Herman · University of North Carolina Wilmington
This book is written for an undergraduate course on the introduction to differential equations typically taken by majors in mathematics, the physical sciences, and engineering. In this course we will investigate analytical, graphical, and approximate solutions of differential equations. We will study the theory, methods of solution and applications of ordinary differential equations. This will include common methods of finding solutions, such as using Laplace transform and power series methods.
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Fast Fourier Transforms
C. Sidney Burrus · Rice University
This book focuses on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), discrete convolution, and, particularly, the fast algorithms to calculate them. These topics have been at the center of digital signal processing since its beginning, and new results in hardware, theory and applications continue to keep them important and exciting.
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Chemical Process Dynamics and Controls
Peter Woolf et al. · University of Michigan
This textbook is a student-contributed open-source text covering the materials used in the senior level controls course. The authors cover a variety of approaches to reduce or manage this uncertainty through the use of robust designs, dynamic systems theory, nonlinear dynamics, control theory, and statistics.
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Physics 9HA: Classical Mechanics
Tom Weideman · University of California, Davis
Physics 9HA introduces general principles and analytical methods used in classical mechanics primarily for physics and applied physics majors, though it is also a good fit for engineering students that have a special affinity for physics and are looking for a more challenging first course in physics.
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Laboratory Manual - AC Electrical Circuit Analysis
James M. Fiore · Mohawk Valley Community College
This laboratory manual is intended for use in an AC electrical circuits course and is appropriate for either a two or four year electrical engineering technology curriculum. The manual contains sufficient exercises for a typical 15 week course using a two to three hour practicum period. The topics range from RL and RC circuits and oscilloscope orientation through series-parallel circuits, superposition, Thevenin’s theorem, maximum power transfer theorem, and series and parallel resonance.
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Introduction to Permaculture
Andrew Millison · Oregon State University
This free introduction to permaculture is meant for the novice and the professional alike, with no prior experience necessary. For the person new to permaculture design and land stewardship, this book will provide a foundation from which to build upon with subsequent training, and introduce a new perspective that can be applied in many careers and facets of life.
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Think Complexity: Exploring Complexity Science with Python
Allen B. Downey · Olin College
In the contents: 1.04: Complexity engineering
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Mechanical Behavior of Material
Joshua P. Steimel · California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
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