Engineering Mechanics: Statics - Softcover

Pytel, Andrew; Kiusalaas, Jan; Gosling, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861526199 ISBN 13: 9781861526199

Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA, 2000

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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Statics Contents: 1. Introduction to Statics 2. Basic Operations with Force Systems 3. Resultants of Force Systems 4. Coplanar Equilibrium Analysis 5. Noncoplanar Equilibrium 6. Beams and Cables 7. Dry Friction 8. Centroids and Distributed Loads 9. Moments and Products of Inertia of Areas 10. Virtual Work and Potential Energy Appendix A: Numerical Integration Appendix B: Finding Roots of Functions Appendix C: Densities of Common Materials 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: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1861526199
• ISBN 13: 9781861526199
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 560