Alan Tribble, with his easy-going, attractive conversational prose, imparts a lot of good physics at a common sense level, enhanced by references to everyday experience.
James Van AllenSpace PioneerNon-Technical
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Business Management for Engineers
Business Management for Engineers will help anyone with a technical background understand, and appreciate, the business side of the engineering profession. This book is intended to make you more successful as an engineer by giving you a broader and deeper understanding of how organizations conduct business.
The book is written by a technical professional (Ph.D. in Physics) with significant experience in the aerospace and defense industry. It focuses on the type of business knowledge required by engineers, vs a traditional MBA curriculum.
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A Tribble’s Guide to Space
Space, the final frontier. It’s as little as fifty miles away, and yet it is considered one of the most dangerous and remote of places. Popular television shows such as Star Trek and movies such as Apollo 13 and October Sky have fired the imaginations of would-be explorers. Dr. Tribble has worked on the design and development of dozens of spacecraft, including the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. A Tribble’s Guide to Space is a how-to book that is firmly grounded in the realities of current state-of-the-art space engineering while tapping into the power of imagination that drives us to explore. Now available in paperback.
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The Space Environment: Implications for Spacecraft Design
Through offering insight into the nature of the space environment and how spacecraft interact with it, Dr. Tribble presents a singular, up-to-date account of the environmental effects that can damage or cause poor performance of orbiting spacecraft. His discussion covers design modifications aimed at eliminating or reducing such environmental effects as solar absorptance increases caused by self-contamination, materials erosion by atomic oxygen, electrical discharges due to spacecraft charging, degradation of electrical circuits by radiation, and bombardment by micrometeorites. This book is unique in that it bridges the gap between studies of the space environment, as performed by space physicists, and spacecraft design engineering, as practiced by aerospace engineers.
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Princeton Guide to Advanced Physics
From classical mechanics to general relativity, the key principles in all areas of physics are surveyed in this one handy volume. Here Dr. Tribble addresses the needs of students and practicing physicists alike. He starts with a review of mathematical methods and then summarizes the most widely used concepts in physics, detailing derivations and applications. With its mix of theory, application, and solved problems, Advanced Physics enables a student to grasp quickly the fundamentals of the field while providing physicists, engineers, and mathematicians with an ideal reference for locating critical formulas or reviewing mathematical details.
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Fundamentals of Contamination Control
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of contamination control, with specific applications to the aerospace industry. Dr. Tribble draws upon his many years of experience as a practicing contamination control engineer and teacher, providing insight on methods to quantify the cleanliness level required by various contamination-sensitive surfaces, predict the end-of-life contamination level seen by those surfaces, and identify the contamination control techniques required to ensure mission success.
