Handbook Of Batteries( Series - Mcgraw-hill Handbooks )

. Smaller, lighter, more powerful, and longer-lasting: the better battery is a much-sought commodity in the increasingly portable, ever-more-wireless world of electronics. Powering laptops, handhelds, cell phones, pagers, watches, medical devices, and many other modern necessitites, batteries are crucial to today's cutting-edge technologies..

. BEST CHOICE FOR BATTERY DESIGN AND EVALUATION.

. This definitive guide from top international experts provides the best technical guidance you can find on designing winning products and selecting the most appropriate batteries for particular applications. HANDBOOK OF BATTERIES covers the field from the tiniest batteries yet devised for life-critical applications to the large batteries required for electric and hybrid electric vehicles..

. EXPERT INFORMATION.

. Edited by battery experts David Linden, battery consultant and editor of the first two editions, and Dr. Thomas Reddy, a pioneer in the lithium battery field, HANDBOOK OF BATTERIES updates you on current methods, helps you solve problems, and makes comparisons easier. Essential for professionals, valuable to hobbyists, and preferred as a consumer guide for battery purchasers, this the THE source for battery information..

. The only comprehensive reference in the field, HANDBOOK OF BATTERIES has more authoritative information than any other source: .

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* Authored by a team of leading battery technology experts from around the globe.
* Covers the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type.
* Entirely revised, including new information on Lithium Ion and Large Nickel Metal Hydride batteries, and portable fuelcells..

. This one-of-a-kind HANDBOOK helps you: .

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* Apply leading-edge technologies, materials, and methods in new designs and products.
* Predict battery performance under any conditions.
* Have all the needed data and equations at your fingertips

THE WORLD'S LEADING GUIDE TO BATTERY TECHNOLOGY

Comprehensive, coherent, and completely up-to-date, "Handbook of Batteries, Third Edition" brings you the expertise of 80 of the world's top experts -- a wealth of hands-on knowledge compiled and edited by two pioneering researchers who are top-ranked consultants to the battery industry.,

Making vital data and equations instantly accessible for a wide range of applications, the Handbook has more authoritative information than any other source on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type.

This edition's four new chapters give you new, fully-detailed information on Lithium Ion and Propulsion and Industrial Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells -- including small fuel cells (less than 1000 Watts) which are potentially competitive with battery sytems.

Thoroughly updating all developments in the field since 1995, the Third Edition of this ultimate state-of-the-art guide:

*Brings you up to speed on today's cutting edge battery technologies, materials and methods
*Helps you predict battery performance under all operating conditions
*Simplifies the selection of the most suitable batteries for a wide range of applications