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Item Description
This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM title:
Slide Rule Notes, 1913.
This is a CD ROM edition of a circa 1913 manual originally published by Longman Green on how to use slide rules, presented in PDF file format.
Sample pages from this CD
This is a CD edition containing scanned images in PDF format of a circa 1913 slide rule manual.
Contains 134 pages with illustrations.
Presented in easy to view PDF file format.
Allows Zoom-in up to 300% to enlarge sections of the pages for easy reading.
Allows Printing of pages on your own printer.
Allows Copy and paste page image to other applications like a word processor or image editors.
(PDF files require PDF file reader to open and view. PDF file reader software can be downloaded for free at www. adobe. com)
Contents:
Chapter I Elementary explanation
Chapter II Direct Proportion
Chapter III Squares and square roots
Chapter IV Cubes and cube roots. Inversion of the slide. Quadratic and cubic equations
Chapter V The trigonometrically scales
Chapter VI The logologarithmic scales
Chapter VII The central scale
Chapter VIII Plotting curves from equations
Chapter IX Effect on results of errors in working
Chapter X Miscellaneous notes, examples and answers.
Rocketbrain Review:
Slide rule notes - a title that says it well, is to slide rule use
what very good class notes would be today - if they offered classes
in slide rule use for applied mathematics!
Alas, such practical education was always a bit in short supply
and here you have a tome that offers it to you in easy to digest
and pleasant but direct form. Enjoy this one.
Great and clear drawings and illustrations pervade this tome.
Wonderful explanations that are direct, simple, understandable
link the demonstrated applications of the slide rule to the
algebra and geometry of problems, and make it easy to learn how
the slide rule solves problems, and to develop and intuitive feel
for how to approach new problems with the slide rule.
Trig and geometry of problems become trivial and easy, and perhaps
for the first time, you will relish the chance to tackle a trig
problem, since it becomes fun!
Good mnemonics throughout help remember the how to order of operations,
and good reasoning make it easy to understand the how and why of the
operations to solve any common problem.
After reading this, my skills sharpened sufficiently, with a couple hours
additional practice that I am actually retiring my scientific calculator
in favor of my old slide rule.
Remember, before you think such gestures are just drama or idle hobby
amusement - that much of the calculations to move us from earth bound
frogdalites to making blackbird space planes and traveling to the moon
and back, and visiting the bottom of the ocean, were all done substantially
on slide rules, not on fancy supercomputers!
For 98% of all science and engineering, the simple truth is that a slide
rule does the work, better, faster, without batteries or huge costs, and
helps the user organize and structure the problem more efficiently and
with clarity that gets the problem focused and solved better.
Viva la Slide Rule
Not much history in this one, except for some references to classic German
mathematical tomes from the past, this one is all about giving you REAL
skills to do real math and engineering with real slide rules.
Enjoy.
I just lost my calculator (deliberately) and have no intention of looking
for the silly thing.
Read this and weep for all the lost years you spent using a calculator!
User friendly PDF file format, the CD ROM is Microsoft Windows as well as MAC compatible.
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