Schaum's Outline of Engineering Mechanics Dynamics

by Nelson, E.; Best, Charles; McLean, W.G.; Potter, Merle

• ISBN13: 9780071713603
• ISBN10: 0071713603
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Study faster, learn better, and get top gradesModified to conform to the current curriculum,Schaum's Outline of Engineering Mechanics: Dynamicscomplements these courses in scope and sequence to help you understand its basic concepts. The book offers extra practice on topics such as rectilinear motion, curvilinear motion, rectangular components, tangential and normal components, and radial and transverse components. You'll also get coverage on acceleration, D'Alembert's Principle, plane of a rigid body, and rotation. Appropriate for the following courses: Engineering Mechanics; Introduction to Mechanics; Dynamics; Fundamentals of Engineering.Features: 765 solved problems Additional material on instantaneous axis of rotation and Coriolis' Acceleration Support for all the major textbooks for dynamics coursesTopics include: Kinematics of a Particle, Kinetics of a Particle, Kinematics of a Rigid Body, Kinetics of a Rigid Body, Work and Energy, Impulse and Momentum, Mechanical Vibrations

Author Biography

Author Profiles
E. W. Nelson taught Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College and later joined the engineering organization of the Western Electric Company (now Lucent Technologies).

Charles L. Best is Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Lafayette College. W. G. McLean (Easton, PA) is Emeritus Director of Engineering at Lafayette College.

Merle Potter is professor emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Kinematics of a Particle3. Kinetics of a Particle4. Kinematics of a Rigid Body5. Kinetics of a Rigid Body6. Work and Energy7. Impulse and Momentum8. Mechanical Vibrations