• ISBN13: 9780367672355
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Engineering
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: October 16, 2022
• Pages: 592
• Original Price: GBP 39.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1780 grams

This practical Level 2 and 3, foundation degree and year 1 undergraduate textbook introduces essentials through detailed examples and laboratory experiments. Now with glass batteries, climate change and the future of electricity production. Its rich companion website includes multiple choice tests and 900 questions and solutions.

John Bird, BSc (Hons), CEng, CMath, CSci, FIMA, FIET, FCollT, is the former Head of Applied Electronics in the Faculty of Technology at Highbury College, Portsmouth, UK. More recently, he has combined freelance lecturing at the University of Portsmouth, with Examiner responsibilities for Advanced Mathematics with City & Guilds and examining for the International Baccalaureate Organisation. He has over 45 years’ experience of successfully teaching, lecturing, instructing, training, educating, and planning of trainee engineers study programmes. He is the author of 146 textbooks on engineering, science, and mathematical subjects, with worldwide sales of over one million copies. He is a chartered engineer, a chartered mathematician, a chartered scientist, and a Fellow of three professional institutions. He has recently retired from lecturing at the Royal Navy’s Defence College of Marine Engineering in the Defence College of Technical Training at H.M.S. Sultan, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, one of the largest engineering training establishments in Europe.