Engineering Mechanics: Statics & Dynamics + CONNECT Access Card

by Plesha, Michael; Gray, Gary; Costanzo, Francesco

• ISBN13: 9780078085130
• ISBN10: 0078085136
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-26
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math

Summary

This item is a package containing Plesha Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics 1e + Connect Access Card Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics. Plesha, Gray, and Costanzo's Engineering Mechanics: Statics & Dynamicspresents the fundamental concepts clearly, in a modern context using applications and pedagogical devices that connect with today's students. The text features a problem-solving methodology that is consistently used throughout all example problems. This methodology helps students lay out the steps necessary to correct problem-formulation and explains the steps needed to arrive at correct and realistic solutions. Once students have fully mastered the basic concepts, they are taught appropriate use of modern computational tools where applicable. Further reinforcing the text's modern emphasis, the authors have brought engineering design considerations into selected problems where appropriate. This sensitizes students to the fact that engineering problems do not have a single answer and many different routes lead to a correct solution. The first new mainstream text in engineering mechanics in nearly twenty years, Plesha, Gray, and Costanzo's Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamicswill help your students learn this important material efficiently and effectively.

Table of Contents

STATICS

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Vectors: Force and Position

Chapter 3 Equilibrium of Particles

Chapter 4 Moment of a Force and Equivalent Force Systems

Chapter 5 Equilibrium of Bodies

Chapter 6 Structural Analysis and Machines

Chapter 7 Centroids and Distributed Force Systems

Chapter 8 Internal Forces

Chapter 9 Friction

Chapter 10 Moments of Inertia

Appendix A Technical Writing

Appendix B Answers to Selected Problems

DYNAMICS

Chapter 1 Setting the Stage for the Study of Dynamics

Chapter 2 Particle Kinematics

Chapter 3 Force and Acceleration Methods for Particles

Chapter 4 Energy Methods for Particles

Chapter 5 Momentum Methods for Particles

Chapter 6 Planar Rigid Body Kinematics

Chapter 7 Newton-Euler Equations for Planar Rigid Body Motion

Chapter 8 Energy and Momentum Methods for Rigid Bodies

Chapter 9 Mechanical Vibrations

Chapter 10 Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Rigid Bodies

(chapter available online)

Appendix A Mass Moments of Inertia

Appendix B Angular Momentum of Rigid Body

Appendix C Answers to Selected Problems