Mechanical Engineering Principles

288 INDEX

Flow nozzle, 249
Flow through an orifice, 254
Fluid flow, 247
pressure, 231
Follower, 203
Force, 1, 144
centrifugal, 182
centripetal, 148, 182
gravitational, 144
ratio, 198
Forces, 26
acting at a point, 25
in structures, 40
graphical method, 42
method of joints, 46
method of sections, 52
Formulae, list of, 279
Fortin barometer, 236
Friction, 170
applications of, 172
coefficient of, 170
on an inclined plane, 173
Fulcrum, 58, 59

Gas laws, 258
thermometers, 275
Gauge pressure, 232, 237
Gear trains, 203
Gravitational force, 144
Greek alphabet, 283

Heat, 211
Hogging, 69
Hooke’s law, 7
Horizontal component, 34
Horsepower, 110
Hot-wire anemometer, 253
Hydrostatic pressure, 240
thrust on curved surface, 241
Hydrostatics, 230

Ideal gas, 260
laws, 258
Idler wheel, 203
Impact of a jet, 255
Impulse, 139
Impulsive forces, 139
Inclined plane, friction on, 173
manometer, 238
Inelastic collisions, 163
Inertia, 144
moment of, 149
Insulation, use of conserving fuel, 218
Isobaric process, 259
Isothermal change, 258

Joule, 112, 153, 157, 212

Kelvin, 211

Kinetic energy, 112, 162

of rotation, 165

Lamina, 25, 84

Latent heat, 215

of fusion, 215

of vaporisation, 215

Levers, 205

Limiting angle of repose, 173

coefficient of friction, 172

efficiency, 199

force ratio, 199

Limit of proportionality, 6, 18

Linear and angular acceleration, 129

motion, 127

velocity, 127

Linear expansion, coefficient of, 222

momentum, 136

Liquid-in-glass thermometer, 212, 267

Load, 198

Machines, 198

Malleability, 11

Manometer, 237

Maximum/minimum thermometers, 268

McLeod gauge, 239

Measurement of pressure, 235

temperature, 267

Mechanical advantage, 198

flowmeters, 250

Mechanisms, 41

Mercury-in-steel thermometer, 274

Mercury thermometers, 268

Metacentric height, 242

Method of joints, 46

sections, 52

Mid-ordinate rule, 154

Modulus of elasticity, 7

rigidity, 12, 120

Moment, 44, 57

of a force, 57

inertia, 112, 113, 149

resistance, 105

Momentum, 136

Motion down a plane, 174

in a circle, 182

in a vertical circle, 187

on a curved banked track, 184

up a plane, 173, 175

Movement ratio, 198

Neck, 19

Neutral axis, 103

layer, 103

Newton, 1, 144