Dear User,

you need Acrobat Reader to use the CD-ROM.
If Acrobat Reader is not installed, please install
it from the Acrobat folder on the CD-ROM.
For the installation double click on Reader7.exe.

1. Start

The electronic book is read via the Adobe Acrobat Reader
from the CD-ROM by clicking on

"start.pdf"

From here you will be able to page through the book.

2. Table of contents

When you click on 'Contents' you move to 
the table of contents. You can proceed directly
to any chapter by clicking on the chapter number.

3. Buttons, scroll bar (overall view)

You can page through the text with the forward
and the backward button, the scroll bar, or
by using the thumbnails in the navigation window.

4. Exercises

To print an individual exercise you can open a prepared
worksheet by clicking the corresponding button in the
exercise section. To print all exercises at once, use the
corrsponding button on the Start page.

5. Selected answers to exercises

To open or print an individual answer to an exercise,
use the corresponding button in the exercise section.
To print all available answers at once use the
corrsponding button on the Start page.

6. Bonus material

The bonus folder contains

- seven relevant MS Excel spreadsheets (folder "Sheets").
  For their use please open them directly with MS Excel or
  using the links on the Start page;
- six Tecplot files. For their use you need the software
  Tecplot (www.amtec.com);
- eleven text files with exercise-relevant numerical data
  (see references in answers). You may open them with any 
  editor or with the corresponding links in the answers.

7. Finish

Once you have finished reading, you can move
back to the Start page and use the 'Exit' button or
finish the program by closing Acrobat Reader.


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You get the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html


Acrobat Reader 7.0 system requirements 
  
Windows

- Pentium-class processor

- Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition (Service Pack 1 or 2),
  Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition,
  Windows Server 2003, or Windows NT (Service Pack 6 or 6a)

- 128 MB of RAM up to 90 MB of available hard-disk space
  (an additional 60 MB is needed temporarily during installation)


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 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
  www.springer.com
