Product Description

Mathematics is crucial to all aspects of engineering and technology. Understanding key mathematical concepts and applying them successfully to solve problems are vital skills every engineering student must acquire. This text teaches, applies and nurtures those skills.

Mathematics for Engineers is informal, accessible and practically oriented. The material is structured so students build up their knowledge and understanding gradually. The interactive examples have been carefully designed to encourage students to engage fully in the problem-solving process.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142299 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 1159 pages

From the Back Cover
Mathematics is crucial to all aspects of engineering and technology. Understanding key mathematical concepts and applying them successfully to solve problems are vital skills every engineering student must acquire. This text teaches, applies and nurtures those skills.

Mathematics for Engineers

is informal, accessible and practically oriented. The material is structured so students build up their knowledge and understanding gradually. The interactive examples have been carefully designed to encourage students to engage fully in the problem-solving process.

Features

• Complete and comprehensive coverage of all essential areas of first year engineering mathematics

• Hundreds of fully worked, wide ranging examples from many branches of engineering
• Content divided into self-contained blocks for ease of study
• Carefully structured interactive examples with conveniently placed solutions to encourage student participation
• Key points and important results highlighted throughout
• Wealth of practice and revision exercises with solutions

• Computer and calculator examples and exercises covering a broad range of software

New to this edition

• New key foundation section gives students a firm base in arithmetic from which to comfortably engage the algebra which follows

• New material on the use of computer algebra packages for graphs, integral calculus and solutions to differential equations using Maple, Derive, Matlab and Mathcad
• New chapter on functions of several variables and partial differentiation
• New material on numerical methods for integration, non-linear equations and first-order differential equations
• New specimen practice-exam questions with solutions on the web
• Additional applications for digital audio technology

Student support includes:

• An interactive CD testing and assessment package, fully-updated for this edition, with multi-choice and hot-spot questions that allow students to test their understanding of key topics. New foundation calculations questions also on CD.
• Specimen practice exam questions with solutions on the web
• A Companion Website including solutions manual, practice exam solutions and worksheets

"Students will find this textbook very useful; it contains good explanations, worked examples and a range of appropriate exercises. The style is user-friendly and will encourage students to work through the examples and develop their mathematical skills."
Dr Jeff Haggett, University of Brighton

"This is an excellent text for developing the skills and confidence of first year students of engineering mathematics."
Dr Kevin Golden, University of the West of England

Customer Reviews

excellent!
I have found this book invaluable during the first year of my BEng course, it is clear in its explanations and always seems to follow the simplest most systematic way to solving problems.

I think this book is particularly good because it starts off with the basics and works you up to a high level, so it is particularly good if you dont feel too confident with your maths, there are plenty of worked examples and questions to attempt to help you gain confidence.

Having looked at most other maths textbooks in the library this year i have always found this the clearest and most user friendly book, so for this reason i recommend it to anyone in the first year of a BEng course.

Lots of information thats easy to digest
If you need to learn or re-learn maths for any particular reason and you have enough time to sit down and work systematically through a book, this is the one to get. It has a clear reader-friendly layout with lots of highlighted key points to remember when it comes to revision. The chapters are split up into blocks and there are questions at the end of each one which build up to an end of chapter test, so you have plently of opportunities to test what you have read. A very good buy, especially for those who are weak at maths.

I just don't know who would read this book...
I was forced to buy this for the first year of an MEng course and the level of the material just didn't seem right. The first several chapters revise addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Eventually it reaches the level of A-Level maths, which should be a pre-requisite for most engineering degrees anyway. The only things that I hadn't covered before starting my degree were laplace transforms and fourier series.

I guess it could be a good book for revision, but who really has the time to read a 1000 page book on topics they know inside out?

So in conclusion, its probably a good book for the niche market of people who dont have any mathematical background and want a foundation for technical learning- perhaps technicians trying to go professional.