Table of Contents

Mathematical Preliminaries. Formats and Classifications. Dimensional Systems. Transformation of Dimensions. Arithmetic of Dimensions. Dimensional Homogeneity. Structure of Physical Relationships. Systemic Determination of Complete Sets of Products Variables. Transformations. Number of Sets of Dimensionless Products of Variables. Relevancy of Variables. Economy of Graphical Presentation. Forms of Dimensionless Relations. Sequence of Variables in the Dimensional Set. Alternate Dimensions. Methods of Reducing the Number of Dimensionless Variables. Dimensional Modeling. Forty-Three Additional Applications.

About the Author

Thomas Szirtes is a professional engineer who devotes his career to consulting, writing, and teaching. He is a former Senior Staff Engineer at SPAR Aerospace, Ltd. in Toronto, and was one of the project engineers of the Shuttle Robotic Manipulator Arm (CANADARM) project, for which he received NASA's Achievement Award. Dr. Szirtes has published over 60 scientific and engineering papers, as well as a college text on mathematical logic. He taught at the Technical University of Budapest, McGill University, and Loyola College in Montreal, and was a founding editor of the SPAR Journal of Engineering and Technology.