No comments about Applied Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists.

2 comments about Private Pilot Maneuvers (Spiral ed./JS314510).

1. This book is a excellent way to get prepared for particular maneuver-lessons with a flight instructor as well as solo flights. It includes good operating procedures from the start-up to the tie-down. It saved me and many others a lot of time and money during Private Pilot Flight Training.



2. This is an excellent book from an excellent series by Jeppesen.

   My instructor recommended this and I read it through upon first recieving. Prior to the lessons I would look in more detail at those maneuvers we were to practice and afterwards I would clarify misunderstandings with it.

   The book has excellent step by step instructions for each move and is accompanied by high quality and easily understandable diagrams.

   Anyone on track for private pilot certification should have a book like this (if not this particular one) in their kit.

4 comments about Applied Electromagnetism (Pws Engineering Foundation).

1. This was not a good book. I found it very difficult tounderstand and learn from. It is the required text for a class I'min. I am currently looking around Amazon.com for a text to replace it. Save money. Buy something else.



2. I just completed a junior-level course which made use of this text. Although the topics are arranged differently than in similar textbooks, I found the explainations of EM concepts quite good. The main strength is getting right to Maxwell's equations in chapter two (--after all, that's what EM is all about, right?). Maxwell's equations are explained well and at an introductory level so that the reader is not overwhelmed. The main weakness is the very underdeveloped first chapter, "Complex Vectors" which is too brief and oversimplified for the subject matter at hand. The book also presents very informative and even entertaining asides on applications, such as "anti-glare headlights" (polarization), "tails of comets" (radiation pressure) and "microwave ovens" (penetration depth). Overall, a very good first EM book.



3. I'm currently in an electromagnetics course that uses this book and this book is awful. The author cannot explain the concepts in a clear manner. The author skips parts of the explaination leaving me confused as to what he did. Also the examples in the book are not very good, an answer is given with little or no work. The book needs more examples and needs to explain the concepts much better. If you're in a course that uses this book get another book, such as Schaum's Outline of Electromagnetics. From a student point of view, this is a horrible book.



4. Pros: Relate EM into real life examples, which makes the book interesting to read. Simple but powerful examples and equations which made my life a lot easier.
   Cons: Lack of example and pratice problems.
   Overall: Very nice book to read for understanding of the materials, but you'll need to pratice problems on your own.

4 comments about Engineering Documentation Control Handbook : Configuration Management for Industry.

1. This book explains the theory but includes plenty of examples of how to set up an Engineering Document Control, or Configuration Management (CM) system. The examples in the text focus on an imaginary manufacturing company. The text does include some mention of tailoring a CM system for software developers.

   The text is crisp and the books organization clear and logical. One of the last chapters includes what is essentially a checklist of how to put together a CM system.

   This is not a one size fits all system. The user must use the material in the book as a guide to tailor a CM system to their company's requirements.

   Overall an indispensable book for someone trying to set up or overhaul a CM system. I highly recommend it.




2. Unlike the vast majority of books available on configuration management, this book, as the title suggests, focuses entirely on configuration management in industry. Throughout the book, the author focuses on a simplified, fast configuration management system that exceeds DoD standards. This book, in the chapters titled Change Control and Fast Change, has an exceptional explanation of how to handle configuration modifications. In these chapters the author gives a detailed description of how to set up a system that allows the fastest possible changes to take place. Also, many case studies are given in these sections which provide further insight as to how to implement the correct system for a given situation. Overall, the book is very easy to understand, and serves as an excellent introduction and handbook to a configuration management system for industry.



3. ...but not for Software CM.
   As the title says, this is an Industry CM book. If your need is for Software CM, this book can be used for general CM concepts and background (and to develop a strong understanding of CM principles), but no more (get a software-specific CM/release management book instead). Only a few brief mentions of application of these concepts to software CM. If your need is for doc. control/industry CM, then this is probably an ideal book.



4. I am a British Chartered Engineer working mainly in Blue Chip energy-related companies. I have just started using this book in my work and find it strongly re-enforces my passion for excellent documentation and design management. It is clearly the current 'bible' for Engineering Documentation Control and is extremely valuable in showing how to climb the 'Configuration Management Ladder' (page 8). It cuts away the dross and complexity that is plentiful nearly everywhere else. So many of us technologists and managers are struggling with hugely powerful new computer packages that integrate most processes in our companies. This is one of the very few books to chart our course and give us a chance of a reliable way through to simplicity, speed and profitability that are so often promissed but so rarely fully attained.

3 comments about Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz 1984-1994 (Haynes Manuals).

1. the book is great, I bought the book,and left it on the table, when i got back, my wife had the car in pieces, and starting to put it back together, she fixed it, and I didnt have to get greasy,



2. ...It's VERY worthwhile buying seeing that it tells you EVERYTHING about your car, and how to repair them inc. sensors, brakes, lights, replacing transmission gears, head gaskets ect...

   It's the only book you need. I have one for my Sunbird, Topaz GS, Topaz L and my 2001 Malibu LS




3. This one is an excelent book, makes itself clear on every repair and mainteinance task. It worths from cover to back cover.

1 comments about Thin-Film Deposition: Principles and Practice.

1. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in process technologies that are used in chipmaking. The chapters are organized well and points are explained in a clear concise way. I am a chemistry major and this book helped me get started in my first job in a chipmaking company.

5 comments about Tracking and Kalman Filtering Made Easy.

1. Brookner builds up from the simplest case (a target moving at constant speed and constant heading) and gradually builds these simple equations into the simplest-case Kalman filter. And this is just in the first chapter! His approach is intuitive; he is rigorous enough, but this book is probably more for engineers than for mathematicians. He develops everything quite logically; in the very earliest going, normal algebraic equations are used and only when it makes sense does he switch to linear algebra, explaining what its advantages are. Great book! Even though the job disappeared, I kept my copy (despite the price!)



2. Brookner makes a difficult topic very easy to understand without watering down content. I highly recommend this book to anyone filtering position estimates!



3. This is a graduate level book, but contains everything an undergraduate, engineer, or scientist needs as a reference on the subject. If I was looking for a professor to study under, they would be required to list this book in their syllabus. A software development engineer will find the basis for developing algorithms, or maintaining production software. 16 Pages of Symbol definitions, 37 Pages of Solutions, 8 pages of References.



4. As a software developer, I was looking for help in developing an algorithm for tracking targets. This book fits the bill perfectly. The author starts with very basic examples, and shows step-by-step how to increase the complexity to work for a myriad of problems. He also shows how many of the filters used for tracking problems are related (mostly just special cases of a very simple algorithm), and when one should be used instead of another (or in some cases why and how to use multiple filters together). The only downside is that there are multiple typos; perhaps the publisher can fix these in the next edition.



5. The author tries to make the subject easier than it can be made. He does mention general concepts but does not mention under what circumstances these hold. The danger comes when you try to implement it. Of course you get an answer but as the author puts it himself: "surprise!" the answer is wrong because you were not told about the validity of your assumptions. As an example take the issue of the discrete noise covariance matrix i.e. Q. The author gives a simple recipe for constructing this matrix. But he does not tell you that it is only valid for small step size. If you try larger time steps you are in big trouble. The book contains occasional insightful remarks. Also the same filter has several different names in the same paragraph, which can cause confusion.