Note-Book on Practical Solid or Descriptive Geometry: Containing Problems With Help for Solutions (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

J. H. Edgar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0364384972 ISBN 13: 9780364384978

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Master solid and descriptive geometry with practical problems and guided solutions. This edition, Note-Book on Practical Solid or Descriptive Geometry, helps you work through real-world figures and their projections.

You’ll explore plans and elevations, traces of projection, and methodical steps for inscribed shapes and polyhedra. The book emphasizes hands‑on drawing techniques and clear reasoning to build geometric intuition.

• Learn to determine edges and faces of shapes inscribed in spheres and cubes using traces and levels.
• Practice constructing tangent-planes to spheres, cones, and cylinders and translating three‑dimensional problems into plan and elevation views.
• Work through problems that connect geometry with practical methods like rabatted planes and plane rotations to complete solids.
• Develop step-by-step problem solving for tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and other polyhedra within spherical or planar constraints.

Ideal for students of engineering drawing, architecture, and geometry courses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0364384972
• ISBN 13: 9780364384978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 285