Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics - Softcover

Pytel, Andrew; Kiusalaas, Jan; Gosling, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861526180 ISBN 13: 9781861526182

Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA, 2001

Synopsis

Now fully incorporated with SI units, these books teach students the basic mechanical behaviour of materials at rest (statics) and in motion (dynamics) while developing their mastery of engineering methods of analysing and solving problems. Traditionally, books for the statics and dynamics courses require students simply to plug problem data into standardised mathematical formulas and then compute an answer without thinking through the problem beforehand. Pytel and Kiusalaas reject this 'plug-and-chug' approach. In sample problems throughout the book, the authors direct students to identify the number of unknowns and independent equations in the problem before they attempt to calculate an answer. In this way, Pytel and Kiusalaas continually train students to think about how and why problems can be solved, by recognising up front whether a problem is statically determinate, or statically indeterminate. Pytel and Kiusalaas is the only textbook that continually reinforces students' ability to recognise determinacy and indeterminacy. Developing this ability in students is a priority for all instructors, especially in the statics course.

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Dynamics Contents: 11. Introduction to Dynamics 12. Dynamics of a Particle: Rectangular Coordinates 13. Dynamics of a Particle: Curvilinear Coordinates 14. Work-Energy and Impulse-Momentum Principles for a Particle 15 Dynamics of Particle Systems 16. Planar Kinematics of Rigid Bodies 17. Planar Kinematics of Rigid Bodies: Force-Mass-Acceleration Method 18. Planar Kinematics of Rigid Bodies: Work-Energy and Impulse-Momentum Methods 19. Rigid-Body Dynamics in Three Dimensions 20. Vibrations. Appendix D: Proof of the Relative Velocity Equation for Rigid-Body Motion Appendix E: Numerical Differentiation Appendix F: Mass Moments and Products of Inertia Answers Index

Synopsis

This is one of two books which teach students the basic mechanical behaviour of materials at rest (statics) and in motion (dynamics) while developing their mastery of engineering methods of analyzing and solving problems. Traditionally, books for the statics and dynamics courses require students simply to plug problem data into standardized mathematical formulas and then compute an answer without thinking through the problem beforehand. Pytel and Kiusalaas reject this "plug-and-chug" approach. In sample problems throughout the book, the authors direct students to identify the number of unknowns and independent equations in the problem before they attempt to calculate an answer. In this way, Pytel and Kiusalaas continually train students to think about how and why problems can be solved, by recognising up front whether a problem is statically determinate (where the number of unknowns and equations are equal), or statically indeterminate (where the number of unknowns is greater than the number of independent equations).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1861526180
• ISBN 13: 9781861526182
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 672