Book Summary of Engineering Mechanics Statics (Volume1) Special Feature • Provides a wide variety of high quality problems that are known for their accuracy, realism, applications, and variety. Students benefit from realistic applications that motivate their desire to learn and develop their problem solving skills • Sample Problems with a worked solution step appear throughout providing examples and reinforcing important concepts and idea in engineering mechanics • Introductory Problems are simple, uncomplicated problems designed to help students gain confidence with a new topic. These appear in the problem sets following the Sample Problems • Representative Problems are more challenging than Introductory Problems but are of average difficulty and length. These appear in the problem sets following the Sample Problems • Computer-Oriented Problems are marked with an icon and appear in the end-of-chapter Review Problems • Review Problems appear at the end of chapter • Offers comprehensive coverage of how to draw free body diagrams Table of Contents • Introduction to Statics • Force Systems • Equilibrium • Structures • Distributed Forces • Friction • Virtual Work • Appendix A: Area Moments of Inertia • Appendix B: Mass Movements of Inertia • Appendix C: Selected Topics of Mathematics • Appendix D: Useful Tables • Photo Credits • Index
