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Tom --
I've been wanting to get one of these, too, in order to see what applications were available for the HP-41 at the dawn of the era of commercially-affordable active solar power. The book includes user-submitted programs and bar code.
The only one I've ever seen on eBay appeared last fall. It went for about US$33 -- about what I believed was fair -- but I wished that I'd bid a little more aggressively.
There are no scans of the Solar Engineering solutions book on the MoHPC CD/DVD set, but there is another CD/DVD set dedicated to the HP-41 that contains a high-quality scan. Visit www.furlow.org, and you just might find it. ;-)
-- KS
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Hi Tom,
I have the Solar Engineering Users' Library Solutions book along with the Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning Solutions. If I remember correctly, I got both of these back in the 80's as part of my joining the HP Users' Library Membeship. The Solar book has the Bar Codes directly in the book while the HVAC has the bar codes in a separate booklet.
The Solar Engineering Table of Contents:
1. Solar-Beam Irradiation
2. Sun Altitude, Azimuth, Solar Pond Absorption
3. Energy Equivalents-Fuels and Prices
4. Heat Exchangers
5. View Factor
6. Heat Transfer through Composite Cylinders and Walls
7. Black Body Thermal Radiation
8. Economic Break Even for Solar Equipment
9. Solar Panel Array
10. Conduit Flow
11. Energy Cash Flow
The HVAC Table of Contents:
1. Overall Heat TRansfer Coefficient
2. Isulastion Break Even Analysis
3. Air-Flow in Circular Ducts
4. Air Duct Coversion
5. Equations of State
6. Black Body Thermal Radiation
7. Psychrometric Properties
8. Heat Exchangers
9. Decibel Addition and Substration
10. Temperature Conversions
Black Body Thermal Radiation and Heat Exchangers are exactly the same program in both books.
And NO - I do not wish to sell either book :)
Bill