Nomography Theory and Application

NOMOGRAPHY: Theory and Application......Page 2
CONTENTS......Page 4
INTRODUCTION......Page 6
1 THE DETERMINANT IN NOMOGRAPHY......Page 10
2 EQUATIONS IN DETERMINANT FORM......Page 27
3 THE CANONICAL FORM FOR MORE THAN THREE VARIABLES......Page 33
4 THE IMPERFECT CANONICAL FORM etc.......Page 56
5 THREE-DIMENSIONAL NOMOGRAMS......Page 86
6 CENTRAL PROJECTION IN NOMOGRAPHY......Page 96
7 THE GENERAL PROJECTIVE TRANSFORMATION......Page 109
8 DUALITY OF POINT AND LINE; POINT COORDINATES AND LINE COORDINATES......Page 122
9 QUASI-ALIGNMENT DIAGRAMS, RECTifiCATION OF NETWORK CHARTS......Page 135
10 CURVED JOINS......Page 143
11 (APPENDIX A) PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATION, SCALE DESIGN......Page 150
12 (APPENDiX B) DETERMINANTS AND LINEAR EQUATIONS......Page 154
13 (APPENDIX C) SOME METRIC AND PROJECTIVE PROPERTIES OF CONICS, CENTRAL PROJECTION, DUALITIES......Page 162
14 (APPENDIX D) NOMOGRAPHIC- ELECTRONIC COMPUTATION......Page 182
REFERENCES......Page 202
INDEX......Page 204