• ISBN13: 9780367333775
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Engineering
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: CRC Press
• Publication Date: November 12, 2025
• Pages: 631
• Original Price: GBP 56.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1080 grams

An Introduction to Mechanical Engineering: Part 2 is the essential text for all second-year undergraduate students as well as those studying foundation degrees and HNDs. Written by an experienced team of lecturers at the internationally renowned University of Nottingham, the text provides thorough coverage of the following core engineering topics, fully updated for the second edition:

Fluid dynamics
Thermodynamics
Solid mechanics
Control theory and techniques
Mechanical power, loads and transmissions
Structural vibration

All chapters include questions and answers, with Chapters 4 and 5 including enhanced, detailed solutions as a bonus feature. The text will be highly relevant to mechanical engineers as well as automotive, aeronautical/aerospace and general engineering students.

Michael Clifford is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE and has lectured at the University of Nottingham

since 1998. He has taught a wide range of subjects including professional studies, computational

and numerical techniques, ?bre reinforced composites, design, and engineering management. He

has over one hundred academic publications, including teaching case studies on the use of sustain-

able appropriate technologies in further education.