Since their publication nearly 40 years ago, Beer and Johnston's Vector Mechanics for Engineers books have set the standard for presenting statics and dynamics to beginning engineering students. The New Media Versions of these classic books combine the power of cutting-edge software and multimedia with Beer and Johnston's unsurpassed text coverage. The package is also enhanced by new problems supplements for both statics and dynamics. For more details about the new media and problems supplement package components, see the "New to this Edition" section below.low.
Ferdinand Pierre Beer (1915–2003) was a French mechanical engineer and university professor. He spent most of his career as a member of the faculty at Lehigh University, where he served as the chairman of the mechanics and mechanical engineering departments. His most significant contribution was the co-authorship of several textbooks in the field of mechanics, which have been widely cited and utilized in engineering education.