Mechanics For Engineers .Statics /

EDITORIAL
Mc Graw hill
ISBN
0-07-004271-3

Preface

List of Symbois

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 What is Mechanics?

1.2 Fundamental Concepts and Principles

1.3 Systems of Units

1.4 Conversion from One System of Units to Another

1.5 Method of Problem Solution

1.6 Numerical Accuracy

2 STATICS OF PARTICLES

FORCES IN A PLANE

2.1 Force on a Particle. Resultant of Two Forces

2.2 Vectors

2.3 Addition of Vectors

2.4 Resultant of Several Concurrent Forces

2.5 Resolution of a Force into Components

2.6 Rectangular Components of a Force

2.7 Addition of Forces by Summing x and y Components

2.8 Equilibrium of a Particle

2.9 Newton's First Law of Motion

2.10 Problems Involving the Equilibrium of a Particle. Free-Body Diagram

FORCES IN SPACE

2.11 Rectangular Components of a Force in Space

2.12 Force Defined by Its Magnitude and Two Points on Its Line of Action

2.13 Addition of Concurrent Forces in Space

2.14 Equilibrium of a Particle in Space
3 STATICS OF RIGID BODIES IN TWO DIMENSIONS

EQUIVALENT SYSTEMS OF FORCES

3.1 Rigid Bodies. External and Internal Forces

3.2 Principle of Transmissibility. Equivalent Forces

3.3 Two-dimensional Structures

3.4 Moment of a Force about an Axis

3.5 Varignon's Theorem

3.6 Moment of a Couple

3.7 Equivalent Couples

3.8 Addition of Couples

3.9 Resolution of a Given Force into a Force Acting at a Given Point and a Couple

3.10 Reduction of a System of Coplanar Forces to One Force and One Couple. Resultant of a System of Coplanar Forces

3.11 Equivalent Systems of Coplanar Forces

EQUILIBRIUM OF RIGID BODIES

3.12 Rigid Body in Equilibrium

3.13 Free-Body Diagram

3.14 Problems Involving the Equilibrium of a Rigid Body

3.15 Statically Indeterminate Reactions. Partial Constraints

3.16 Equilibrium of a Two-Force Body

3.17 Equilibrium of a Three-Force Body

4 STATICS OF RIGID BODIES IN THREE DIMENSIONS

EQUIVALENT SYSTEMS OF FORCES

4.1 Moment of a Force about an Axis

4.2 Couples in Space

4.3 Couples are Vectors

4.4 Resolution of a Given Force into a Force at O and a Couple

4.5 Reduction of a System of Forces to One Force and One Couple

EQUILIBRIUM OF RIGID BODIES

4.6 Equilibrium of a Rigid Body in Space

4.7 Reactions at Supports and Connections

The main objective of a first course in mechanics should be to develop in the engineering student the ability to analyze any problem in a simple and logical manner and to apply to its solu-tion a few, well-understood, basic principles. It is hoped that this text, designed for the first course in statics offered in the sopho-more year, and the volume that follows, Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, will help the instructor achieve this goal.t

In this third edition, the vectorial character of mechanics has again been emphasized. The concept of vectors and the laws governing the addition and the resolution of vectors into compo-nents are discussed with care at the beginning of Chap. 2, and, throughout the text, forces and other vector quantities have been clearly distinguished from scalar quantities through the use of boldface type. Products of vectors, however, are not used in this text

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