Tutorials
=========

The galleries show one idea at a time. Each tutorial follows one
engineering problem through several domains, the way a design or a
course project does. Every code block runs when the documentation is
built, and the test suite checks that the numbers printed under each one
are still what the code produces.

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   :gutter: 2

   .. grid-item-card:: A beam from load to fatigue life
      :link: beam_to_fatigue_life
      :link-type: doc

      Structural engineering, materials and reliability: moments and
      deflections, Goodman, Basquin and Miner, and a Weibull life for a
      four-beam runway.

   .. grid-item-card:: A feedback loop in the time and frequency domains
      :link: feedback_time_and_frequency
      :link-type: doc

      Control systems and signal processing: Ziegler-Nichols tuning, step
      response and phase margin, a frequency response measured from
      samples, and the phase cost of a sensor filter.

   .. grid-item-card:: A power plant from cycle to cooling tower
      :link: power_plant_to_cooling_tower
      :link-type: doc

      Thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid engineering: a Rankine cycle,
      exergy, a condenser by effectiveness-NTU, and the cooling-water pump.

   .. grid-item-card:: A radio link from antenna to bit errors
      :link: radio_link_to_bit_errors
      :link-type: doc

      Communications and signal processing: a link budget, cascaded noise,
      a simulated matched filter, and a Hamming code.

To try the package without installing anything, open the
`quickstart notebook <https://colab.research.google.com/github/cpoli/engineeringkit/blob/main/notebooks/quickstart.ipynb>`__
in Colab or `in JupyterLite <../lite/lab/index.html?path=quickstart.ipynb>`__.
Both install engineeringkit from PyPI.

.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   beam_to_fatigue_life
   feedback_time_and_frequency
   power_plant_to_cooling_tower
   radio_link_to_bit_errors