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Mcgraw-Hill Series in Mechanical Engineering

Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics, SI Edition

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About the Book: Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics: 10th Edition "The tenth edition of Beer, Johnston, Mazurek, and Cornwells Vector Mechanics for Engineers provides conceptually accurate and thorough coverage together with a significant refreshment of the exercise sets and online delivery of homework problems to your students. Nearly forty percent of the problems in the text are changed from the previous edition. Feature: Thoroughly Refreshed Problem Set in the tenth Edition. 70% of the problems are updated from the previous edition. Concept Questions are multiple choice problems that require few, if any, calculations are included. Students are encouraged to solve these problems using the principles and techniques discussed in the text and to use these principles to help develop their intuition." Content "1 Introduction 2 Statics of Particles 3 Rigid Bodies: Equivalent Systems of Forces 4 Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies 5 Distributed Forces: Centroids and Centers of Gravity 6 Analysis of Structures 7 Forces in Beams and Cables 8 Friction 9 Distributed Forces: Moments of Inertia 10 Method of Virtual Work 11 Kinematics of Particles 12 Kinetics of Particles: Newtons Second Law 13 Kinetics of Particles: Energy and Momentum Methods 14 Systems of Particles 15 Kinematics of Rigid Bodies 16 Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Forces and Accelerations 17 Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Energy and Momentum Methods 18 Kinetics of Rigid Bodies in Three Dimensions 19 Mechanical Vibrations " About the Author: Ferdinand P Beer, E Russell Johnston, David F Mazurek, Phillip J Cornwell, Sanjeev Sanghi "Ferdinand P. Beer: Late of Lehigh University E. Russell Johnston, Jr.: Late of University of Connecticut David F. Mazurek: U.S. Coast Guard Academy Philip J. Cornwell: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Sanjeev Sanghi: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi "

832 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

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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.

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