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Mechanical engineering and simple machines / Robert Snedden.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Engineering in actionPublisher: St. Catharines, Ontario : Crabtree Publishing Company, [2013]Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0778774988 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper)
  • 0778775038 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780778774983 (reinforced library binding : alk. paper)
  • 9780778775034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Machine world -- Energy, force, and motion -- What is a machine? -- Looking at levers -- Inventing the wheel (and other turning things) -- Compound machines -- What do we want to make? -- Searching for solutions -- Building a prototype -- Into production -- Design challenge : rocket racer -- On the engineering frontier -- So you want to be a mechanical engineer?
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 621 S671 Available 33111007073550
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This engaging and informative book explores the science of simple machines and how it relates to the exciting field of mechanical engineering. Readers will learn how mechanical engineers design and innovate machines we use every day. Readers then apply the engineering design process to tackle a design challenge of their own.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine world -- Energy, force, and motion -- What is a machine? -- Looking at levers -- Inventing the wheel (and other turning things) -- Compound machines -- What do we want to make? -- Searching for solutions -- Building a prototype -- Into production -- Design challenge : rocket racer -- On the engineering frontier -- So you want to be a mechanical engineer?

Guided reading: V

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