Oxford University Press, 2011, 1029 pages
This is an engineering statics and dynamics text. It is both an introduction, aimed primarily at middle-level engineering students, and a reference. The book emphasizes use of vectors, free-body diagrams, momentum and energy balance and computation. More importantly, perhaps, the book is meant to help build an intuition for mechanics.
The sections have been divided so that the homework problems selected from one section are usually about half of a typical weekly homework assignment. The theory and examples from one section might be adequately covered in about one lecture, plus or minus.
Basics for Mechanics
What is mechanics?
Vectors: position,force and moment
FBDs (A free-body diagram)
Statics
Statics of one object
Trusses and frames
Transmissions and mechanisms
Tension, shear and bending moment
Hydrostatics
Dynamics
Dynamics in 1D
Particles in space
Many particles in space
Straight line motion
Circular motion
Planar motion of an object
Time-varying basis vectors
Constrained particles and rigid objects
Appendices
Units and dimensions
Friction: perspectives on friction laws
Theorems for Systems
This is an engineering statics and dynamics text. It is both an introduction, aimed primarily at middle-level engineering students, and a reference. The book emphasizes use of vectors, free-body diagrams, momentum and energy balance and computation. More importantly, perhaps, the book is meant to help build an intuition for mechanics.
The sections have been divided so that the homework problems selected from one section are usually about half of a typical weekly homework assignment. The theory and examples from one section might be adequately covered in about one lecture, plus or minus.
Basics for Mechanics
What is mechanics?
Vectors: position,force and moment
FBDs (A free-body diagram)
Statics
Statics of one object
Trusses and frames
Transmissions and mechanisms
Tension, shear and bending moment
Hydrostatics
Dynamics
Dynamics in 1D
Particles in space
Many particles in space
Straight line motion
Circular motion
Planar motion of an object
Time-varying basis vectors
Constrained particles and rigid objects
Appendices
Units and dimensions
Friction: perspectives on friction laws
Theorems for Systems