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เนื้อหาย่อ : The study of POWER TECHNOLOGY is much more than getting a small gasoline engine from an old lawn mower, taking it apart and putting it back together. A power crisis is threatening the world. People are using energy at such a fantastic rate that known fossil fuels could be exhausted in YOUR children's lifetime. Also, the production and utilization of certain present day power sources are responsible for many of the world's environmental problems. These include the manufacture of gasoline and its use in internal combustion engines. Understanding POWER TECHNOLOGY could enable us to cope with these energy and environmental problems. First, it helps us to better utilize existing power sources. Second, it acts as a guide in the research and development of newer, non-polluting, energy-producing techniques. EXPLORING POWER TECHNOLOGY is designed to help you: 1. Understand the various energy sources and how they are used to produce power. 2. Become acquainted with the many ways of transmitting and controlling power and how these techniques have been adapted to various applications. 3. Become familiar with the design and production of power mechanisms and how they convert energy to useful work. 4. Become aware of technological advances in power technology and how they affect society. 5. Develop the ability to plan and organize your work. 6. Develop safe work habits. 7. Develop some degree of manipulative skills in the use of power technology laboratory equipment and tools. 8. Furnish laboratory experiences that will aid in discovering interests, abilities and aptitudes in power technology. 9. Become acquainted with the many career opportunities in power technology and its related fields. EXPLORING POWER TECHNOLOGY is a first course which teaches the fundamentals of energy and its conversion to usable work. It is written in easy-to-understand language. Illustrations are in abundance. Extra color is employed to clarify details or to emphasize important points. This text also provides construction details for projects that depict the function of many types of power-producing and power-using devices. By carefully selecting material, EXPLORING POWER TECHNOLOGY may be used to present a six, nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks power program.