Description |
1 online resource (vi, 389 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Problem Solving -- Significant Figures and Standard Form -- Common Units of Measure -- Simple Machines -- Internal Combustion Engines -- Power Trains -- Tractors and Power Units -- Machinery Calibration -- Equipment Efficiency and Capacity -- Economics of Agricultural Machinery -- Sound and Noise -- Measuring Distance -- Angles and Areas -- Land Description -- Differential and Profile Leveling -- Weather -- Water Runoff -- Erosion and Erosion Control -- Irrigation -- Handling, Moisture Management, and Storage of Biological Products -- Animal Waste Management -- Insulation and Heat Flow -- Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning -- Selection of Structural Members -- Principles of Electricity -- Series and Parallel Circuits -- Sizing Conductors -- Electric Motors |
Summary |
"Introduction to Agricultural Engineering Technology: A Problem Solving Approach is an invaluable text for agriculture students at the introductory level. The third edition has been thoroughly updated and reorganized to meet the current units and standards of the American Society of Agricultural and biological Engineers (ASABE)."--Jacket |
Notes |
2nd ed. by Lawrence O. Roth and Harry L. Field published: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1991, under title: An introduction to agricultural engineering |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Agricultural engineering.
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Agricultural engineering -- Problems, exercises, etc
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Agricultural engineering.
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Science des matériaux.
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Chimie.
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Agricultural engineering
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Genre/Form |
exercise books.
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Problems and exercises
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Problems and exercises.
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Problèmes et exercices.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Solie, John B.
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Roth, Lawrence O.
Introduction to agricultural engineering
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ISBN |
9780387369150 |
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0387369155 |
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9780387369136 |
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0387369139 |
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