Engineering Problem Solving With ANSI C

Focusing on five major engineering/scientific applications as examples, this volume presents a design process for solving engineering problems, and then develops corresponding solutions using ANSI C. An accompanying diskette contains all the example problems and data files used in the book.

An Introduction to Engineering Problem Solving

3

(17)

Grand Challenge: Weather Prediction

Grand Challenges

4

(2)

Computing Systems

6

(9)

Computer Hardware

6

(1)

Computer Software

7

(8)

An Engineering Problem-Solving Methodology

15

(5)

Summary, Key Terms

18

(2)

Simple C Programs

20

(38)

Grand Challenge: Vehicle Performance

Program Structure

22

(3)

Constants and Variables

25

(5)

Scientific Notation

26

(1)

Numeric Data Types

27

(2)

Symbolic Constants

29

(1)

Assignment Statements

30

(10)

Arithmetic Operators

32

(2)

Priority of Operators

34

(2)

Overflow and Underflow

36

(1)

Increment and Decrement Operators

37

(1)

Abbreviated Assignment Operators

38

(2)

Standard Input and Output

40

(5)

printf Function

40

(4)

scanf Function

44

(1)

Mathematical Functions

45

(4)

Elementary Math Functions

46

(1)

Trigonometric Functions

47

(2)

Problem Solving Applied: Velocity Computation

49

(9)

Summary, Key Terms, C Statement Summary Style Notes, Debugging Notes, Problems

52

(6)

Control Structures and Data Files

58

(42)

Grand Challenge: Global Change

Algorithm Development

60

(4)

Top-Down Design

60

(1)

Structured Programming

61

(3)

Conditional Expressions

64

(3)

Relational Operators

65

(1)

Logical Operators

66

(1)

Precedence and Associativity

66

(1)

Selection Statements

67

(5)

Simple if Statement

68

(1)

if/else Statement

69

(3)

Loop Structures

72

(7)

while Loop

73

(1)

do/while Loop

74

(1)

for Loop

75

(3)

break and continue Statements

78

(1)

Problem Solving Applied: Weather Balloons

79

(5)

Data Files

84

(16)

I/O Statements

84

(2)

Reading Data Files

86

(6)

Generating a Data File

92

(2)

Summary Key Terms, C Statement Summary Style Notes, Debugging Notes, Problems

94

(6)

Modular Programming with Functions

100

(18)

Grand Challenge: Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery

Modularity

102

(1)

Programmer-Defined Functions

103

(15)

Function Definition

104

(5)

Function Prototype

109

(1)

Parameter List

110

(2)

Storage Class and Scope

112

(1)

Summary, Key Terms, C Statement Summary Style Notes, Debugging Notes, Problems

113

(5)

One-Dimensional Arrays

118

(16)

Grand Challenge: Speech Recognition

Array Definitions and Computations

120

(5)

Definition and Initialization

120

(2)

Computations and I/O

122

(3)

Arrays as Function Arguments

125

(9)

Call-by-Address References

127

(1)

Statistical Measurements

127

(2)

Summary, Key Terms, C Statement Summary Style Notes, Debugging Notes, Problems

129

(5)

Character Data

134

(17)

Grand Challenge: Mapping the Human Genome

Character Information

136

(1)

Character Initialization and Computations

137

(8)

Character I/O

138

(4)

Arrays of Characters

142

(2)

Character Comparisons

144

(1)

Character Functions

145

(6)

Summary, Key Terms, C Statement Summary Style Notes, Debugging Notes, Problems

147

(4)

Appendix A ASCII Character Codes

151

(4)

Complete Solutions to Practice! Problems

155

(5)

Index

160

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