Bicycling science / David Gordon Wilson ; with contributions by Jim Papadopoulos.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Edition: Third editionDescription: viii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262232375
- 9780262232371
- 0262731541
- 9780262731546
- 629.2272015313 21
- TL410 .W546 2004
Contents:
Human Power -- 1. A short history of bicycling -- 2. Human power generation -- 3. Thermal effects on power production (how bicyclists keep cool) -- Some Bicycle Physics -- 4. Power and speed -- 5. Bicycle aerodynamics -- 6. Rolling: tires and bearings -- 7. Braking -- 8. Steering and balancing -- 9. Mechanics and mechanisms: power transmission -- 10. Materials and stresses -- Human-Powered Vehicles and Machines -- 11. Unusual human-powered machines -- 12. Human-powered vehicles in the future.
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 629.2272015313 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A400401B |
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Revised edition of: Bicycling science / Frank Rowland Whitt. 2nd ed. c1982.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Human Power -- 1. A short history of bicycling -- 2. Human power generation -- 3. Thermal effects on power production (how bicyclists keep cool) -- Some Bicycle Physics -- 4. Power and speed -- 5. Bicycle aerodynamics -- 6. Rolling: tires and bearings -- 7. Braking -- 8. Steering and balancing -- 9. Mechanics and mechanisms: power transmission -- 10. Materials and stresses -- Human-Powered Vehicles and Machines -- 11. Unusual human-powered machines -- 12. Human-powered vehicles in the future.
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