Bij het ontwerpen van een installatie wordt vooral de NEN 1010 als leidraad gebruikt, want hierin staan de belangrijkste ontwerprichtlijnen. In de praktijk ontstaan er echter steeds meer kostbare power quality-problemen rond de kwaliteit van de aangeboden spanning, de stroom die diverse toestellen vragen, de immuniteit van toestellen en de impedanties in net en installatie. Als een nieuwe installatie goed wordt ontworpen, kunnen onnodige kosten worden voorkomen. Bovendien kan bij bestaande in...

Dit boek geeft een overzicht van de eisen die worden gesteld aan een woonhuisinstallatie op dit moment en in de toekomst. Voor de minimale eisen wordt uiteraard gekeken naar de NEN 1010. Diverse ontwikkelingen in de energie- en installatiewereld laten zien dat een woonhuisinstallatie die nu wordt gebouwd de komende decennia aan veel veranderingen onderhevig zal zijn. Hierbij

kan worden gedacht aan de vele ontwikkelingen in het schakelen en regelen van toestellen, de introductie van nieuwe tec...

Deze volledig herziene uitgave van Planten basiskennis helpt je bij het opdoen en verder ontwikkelen van je plantenkennis. De uitgebreide en rijk geïllustreerde uitleg over de uiterlijke kenmerken van de plant helpen je bij het leren herkennen van planten. Bovendien wordt er aandacht besteed aan de indeling van het plantenrijk. Zowel de wetenschappelijke indeling als de praktijkgerichte indeling komen aan de orde.

De naamgeving, uitspraak en betekenis van de wetenschappelijke plantennamen wo...

The Caribbean before Columbus is a new synthesis of the region's insular history. It combines the results of the authors' 55 years of archaeological research on almost every island in the three archipelagoes with that of their numerous colleagues and collaborators. The presentation operates on multiple scales: temporal, spatial, local, regional, environmental, social, and political.

In addition, individual sites are used to highlight specific issues. For the first time, the complete histories...

Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory.

Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technic...

Engineering Mathematics with Examples and Applications provides a compact and concise primer in the field, starting with the foundations, and then gradually developing to the advanced level of mathematics that is necessary for all engineering disciplines. Therefore, this book's aim is to help undergraduates rapidly develop the fundamental knowledge of engineering mathematics. The book can also be used by graduates to review and refresh their mathematical skills.

Step-by-step worked examples w...

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevita...

The second edition of this innovative core textbook spans the service and manufacturing sectors, equipping readers to grasp and overcome the core challenges faced in planning, designing and implementing operations.

The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator.

On the contrary, it is a question of again making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevan...

A History of the Muslim World to 1750 traces the development of Islamic civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the mid-eighteenth century. Encompassing a wide range of significant events within the period, its coverage includes the creation of the Dar al-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims), the fragmentation of society into various religious and political groups including the Shi'ites and Sunnis, the series of catastrophes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that threa...