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by Robert H. Perry and Don W. Green Published by McGraw-Hill Company Perry’s on CD is the most recent advance in this respected series of Chemical Engineers' handbook editions that dates back to the 1930s. The NST Engineers, Inc. reviewers have relied upon various editions of the print copy over the past forty years. The portability and ease of searching for, finding, and copying material from this CD version will be widely appreciated. For the uninitiated, the explanations and data presented are a great help to chemical and other engineers, scientists, students and others who seek to turn ideas into reality about energy and materials and their transfers and transformations. To learn more about the specific contents of the CD and the print copy of this latest Perry's, click on: Perry's contents described . When finished with that, click on your browser's back arrow to return to this page. The Perry's CD uses Adobe Acrobat format. This allows rapid printing of paper copies of individual pages of this McGraw-Hill Handbook. Essentially all Windows-type and Macintosh computers and the widely-used printers, produced over the last several years can handle the reading and printing. We did discover that an HP Laserjet III printer linked to a ’91 computer using Windows 95, and with an Intel 486 CPU having a 100 mHz upgrade, could not manage the printing. We then tried a similarly aged computer, with only 16 meg of RAM, but linked to a late ’92 HP Injet printer. That low-power system did a fine job of reading and printing. Following the booklet supplied, the NST Engineers, Inc. reviewers were able to make valuable use of figures and tables from the one hundred formatted as “Active Objects”. The CD uses ACTIV8 © to enable them. We were able to make custom tables of materials’ properties. As an example, we copied an “Active” table to the Clipboard. Then we pasted the data directly into an EXCEL™ worksheet. In the worksheet we easily deleted and added cells and titling to suit. A special feature with some of the “Active” tables is an interpolation capability. For example, where table data as temperatures was given in 10 degree intervals, we could input any value within an interval and get the appropriate property value. With “Active” figures that are graphs you can magnify areas of interest. Then by placing the mouse pointer cross-hairs anywhere on the graph, you can read the exact x and y coordinates in a window. If you click on several points, the data is saved in a table. Laptop, and other travelling users, will especially appreciate the utility of a single CD that covers the entire contents of the six-pound print copy of this engineering classic. The NST Engineers reviewers found the McGraw-Hill Technical Help Desk knowledgeable and easy to contact. To find out more about this CD, or to order it online, just enter its ISBN (same as the ASN) number:0071344128 in the Amazon.com keyword search box below.
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