Required Text:
Machine Design (2nd edition) by Robert L. Norton., Prentice-Hall, 1998, ISBN 0-13-897802-6. This book uses a program called TK-Solver which will not be used at all in MAE325. Instead, all computation will be done with Matlab.Please report any errors you find in the textbook to yc228@cornell.edu. We get $2.00 per error reported (real errors), 50 cents for typo like things.
We'll use the money toward the class somehow (perhaps a pizza party etc.).Texts about things you need to know well:
All of these are books you have already. Statics by Beer and Johnston Strength of Materials by Beer and Johnston Dynamics by Ruina and Pratap MATLAB 5 by Pratap (Getting started with Matlab 5)