Open Text Book » engineering http://www.opentextbook.org A registry of textbooks that anyone can access, reuse and redistribute Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:47:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Basics of Fluid Mechanics – new release and call for volunteers http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/05/23/basics-of-fluid-mechanics-new-release-and-call-for-volunteers/ http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/05/23/basics-of-fluid-mechanics-new-release-and-call-for-volunteers/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 17:38:32 +0000 Jonathan Gray http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/05/23/basics-of-fluid-mechanics-new-release-and-call-for-volunteers/ Dr. Genick Bar-Meir of the Potto Project (which we posted about last October) has released a new book – The Basics of Fluid Mechanics, available under the GFDL.

Dr. Bar-Meir is looking for someone to take over the chapter that deals with material properties. If anyone might be interested in contributing – please get in touch!

]]> http://www.opentextbook.org/2008/05/23/basics-of-fluid-mechanics-new-release-and-call-for-volunteers/feed/ 4 Potto Project – Engineering textbooks http://www.opentextbook.org/2007/10/24/potto-project-engineering-textbooks/ http://www.opentextbook.org/2007/10/24/potto-project-engineering-textbooks/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:56:47 +0000 Jonathan Gray http://blog.opentextbook.org/2007/10/24/potto-project-engineering-textbooks/ The Potto Project was started by Dr. Genick Bar-Meir to produce and distribute high quality open textbooks. Books are made available in pdf, LaTeX, dvi and postscript under the GFDL. So far the main books are ‘Fundamentals of Compressible Flow’ and ‘Fundamentals of Die Casting Design’, both available from the downloads page.

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