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In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, the Irish were by far the largest foreign student body at Leuven University.After Henry VIII’s break with Rome, Irish catholic students were no longer welcome in Oxford and Cambridge and were obliged to turn to the continent for their education. Leuven was the fi rst university they attended. Already in 1548 there is a record of a William de Trehesse matriculating at Leuven University. For almost two centuries Leuven had no less than three Irish Colleges: the Franciscan College of St. Anthony’s (1607), the Irish Pastoral College (1622/4) and the Dominican College of the Holy Cross (1624). In 1797 the French Revolution closed the university and all of its colleges.Due to the abundance of the Leuven University archives, it has been possible to reconstruct the academic careers of almost 1200 Irish students. However, they don’t represent all the Irish students to have attended Leuven University. Only a few Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits and other regulars are listed. The friars and fathers studied in their own colleges or in the study houses of their orders.The majority of Irish secular students were destined for the priesthood and the Irish mission. A few studied law and many, surprisingly, medicine. Irish Leuven alumni provided no fewer than fi ve archbishops, twelve bishops and ten professors at Leuven University itself.About the author:Jeroen Nilis (°1967) holds an MA in early modern History (K.U.Leuven). Since twenty years he has been studying the Irish presence at Leuven University and elsewhere in the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands. This research resulted in several publications.

Elements of airplane performance, 2nd editionThis book contains sixteen chapters and four appendices which form a compre-hensive teaching text on the subject of airplane performance. The fi rst seven chapters are designed to provide necessary background material in mechanics, aerodynamics, atmospheric science, air data instruments, and propulsion. In addi-tion, the appendices furnish basic data and information on the theory pertinent to a clear understanding of the different problems. Chapters 8-13, in particular, treat the point performance of the airplane, i.e., the performance that pertain to given point on the fl ight path. Finally, chapters 14-16 deal with what is known as the integral performance, indicating the performance items which are related to the course of the fl ight. The text is extensively illustrated and includes numerous worked examples. The book is primarily intended to serve as a textbook in undergraduate engineering courses and as an instrument for selfstudy.ContentsPreface • 1. Basic concepts • 2. The atmosphere • 3. Equations of motion • 4. Aerodynamic basis • 5. Air data instruments • 6. Propulsion • 7. Propeller perform-ance • 8. The airplane in symmetric fl ight • 9. Performance in steady symmetric fl ight • 10. Effect of altitude • 11. Flight and airplane condition effects • 12. Turning performance • 13. Gliding fl ight • 14. Symmetric climb and descent • 15. Cruise performance • 16. Airfi eld performance • References • Appendix A. Newtonian mechanics • Appendix B. Conversion factors • Appendix C. International standard atmosphere • Appendix D. One-dimensional steady fl ow equations • IndexThe author, Ger J.J. Ruijgrok, is an Emeritus Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Brussels Free University (VUB), Belgium, and at the Delft University of Tech-nology, The Netherlands. He is also the author of the books Elements of Aviation Acoustics and Elements of Aircraft Pollution. He was graduated at Delft University o

Surrounded by physicsThis book is the result of a series of lectures that the author gaveduring a number of years to fi rst year students in Applied Physics atDelft University of Technology. The idea for such a course started fromdiscussions with our students. They made a plea for an extra physicscourse in the fi rst year to get a better balance in the math and physicscourses. Their wish was granted and the author was asked to prepair aseries of lectures with as theme 'Physics of Daily Life'. This idea was ofcourse inspired by the series of books that Prof. Dr. M. Minnaert wrote inthe 30s of the 20th century. It should not be a course, that deals withonly one of the main theories of physics. On the contrary, the idea wasrather to stroll along all kinds of more or less familiar phenomena. Bytouching on these phenomena, different parts of physics and theaccompanying theory would be discussed with the students. Being exposed tophenomena and open questions and being encouraged to think as a physicistwas more important than providing the theoretical background along thetraditional lines of the sub-disciplines and theories of physics.Various aspects from daily life were chosen for the examples. Forinstance: what is the thickness of our atmosphere and can we make anestimate based on common knowledge? Or, what is the temperature of theearth without the greenhouse effect? Many more examples were in subsequentyears discussed. They are taken from the visible phenomena in theatmosphere, from sound, from the kitchen or from sports, to name a few. Inthe book they are grouped in six chapters.Contents Preface • 1. Elephant ears, dolphins and the balance equation •2. The sky has a limit • 3. The sound in a cup of coffee • 4. Flowingwater and air • 5. Cooking, boiling, heating • 6. Mechanics at work •Bibliography • Index.http://www.vssd.nl/hlf/c003.htm

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Elements of airplane performance, 2nd editionThis book contains sixteen chapters and four appendices which form a compre-hensive teaching text on the subject of airplane performance. The ? rst seven chapters are designed to provide necessary background material in mechanics, aerodynamics, atmospheric science, air data instruments, and propulsion. In addi-tion, the appendices furnish basic data and information on the theory pertinent to a clear understanding of the different problems. Chapters 8-13, in particular, treat the point performance of the airplane, i.e., the performance that pertain to given point on the ? ight path. Finally, chapters 14-16 deal with what is known as the integral performance, indicating the performance items which are related to the course of the ? ight. The text is extensively illustrated and includes numerous worked examples. The book is primarily intended to serve as a textbook in undergraduate engineering courses and as an instrument for selfstudy.ContentsPreface 1. Basic concepts 2. The atmosphere 3. Equations of motion 4. Aerodynamic basis 5. Air data instruments 6. Propulsion 7. Propeller perform-ance 8. The airplane in symmetric ? ight 9. Performance in steady symmetric ? ight 10. Effect of altitude 11. Flight and airplane condition effects 12. Turning performance 13. Gliding ? ight 14. Symmetric climb and descent 15. Cruise performance 16. Air? eld performance References Appendix A. Newtonian mechanics Appendix B. Conversion factors Appendix C. International standard atmosphere Appendix D. One-dimensional steady ? ow equations IndexThe author, Ger J.J. Ruijgrok, is an Emeritus Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Brussels Free University (VUB), Belgium, and at the Delft University of Tech-nology, The Netherlands. He is also the author of the books Elements of Aviation Acoustics and Elements of Aircraft Pollution. He was gradu

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