Best of
Engineering

1965

Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory


Barbara Lovett Cline - 1965
    She explores the backgrounds of the major figures—Rutherford, Bohr, Planck, Einstein—separately, but draws them together as they begin to consider each other's questions about the nature of matter.

A City is Not a Tree


Christopher W. Alexander - 1965
    

Fluid Dynamic Drag: Practical Information on Aerodynamic Drag and Hydrodynamic Resistance


F. Hoerner Sighard - 1965
    

An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule


Isaac Asimov - 1965
    

Aerodynamics of Wings and Bodies


Holt Ashley - 1965
    Fluid mechanics, constant density inviscid flow, singular perturbation problems, viscosity, thin-wing and slender body theories, drag minimalization, and other essentials are addressed in a lively, literate manner and accompanied by diagrams.

Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics


Simon Ramo - 1965
    Features new examples.