Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics

by Ferdinand P. Beer

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 a new problems supplement. For more details about the new media and problems supplement package components, see the "New to this Edition" section below.

Genres: Engineering, Textbooks, Physics, Academic, Science, Architecture, Reference

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

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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Reviews

[Shruthika]

not a bad book but doesn't come close to my guy jeff hanson

[Jacob]

this book ruined my life.

[Foxtower]

This might possibly be someones textbook, and perhaps if I had to study it I wouldn't rate it so highly, yet as a tool on the farm where I'm constantly fixing or building equipment, having a handy reference for all things to do with forces and stress is very handy. I likwe that this book has so many cool pictures of the forces at work.. I can often just bypass doing the math and go by dead reackoning as long as I have a good idea of the vectors involved!

[Jose D.]

While the statics book isn't that hard to understand because the topic is easy by itself, the book makes some things kinda hard with bad mathematical and written explanations, there are too many things that this book just pass away making the students think by themselves too much. By the way this isnt a big issue since some topics are understandable with the examples and there are some good explained things, but there's nothing of the other world here, others authors books are easier.

[Foxtower]

This might possibly be someones textbook, and perhaps if I had to study it I wouldn't rate it so highly, yet as a tool on the farm where I'm constantly fixing or building equipment, having a handy reference for all things to do with forces and stress is very handy. I likwe that this book has so many cool pictures of the forces at work.. I can often just bypass doing the math and go by dead reackoning as long as I have a good idea of the vectors involved!

[Mike Gardog]

I read the fourth edition, which combined statics and dynamics all neatly packed into 926 pages! Statics was phenomenal and I soaked up an amazing amount that quarter. Dynamics, not so much. Maybe because the topics is more challenging than Statics. Good job Beer & Johnston (E. Russell Johnston, Jr. - co-author).

[Arash Roohanian]

One of the most known sources of statics, and it has to be; P. Beer & E. Russell knew how to present and train a student in statics perfectly... good points and fairly hard questions in this book made me give it 4 stars. One less cause it causes you check answers to solve questions, IDK why! But that was a truth in our university😂
At last, appreciate it🙏

[Dipson Rimal]

It is a good book but I recommend you to go through every page of the book from start to end. Most topics are inter related.

[Jack Hickey]

All my homies love some good statics

[Amin]

در زمینه استاتیک واقعا کتاب خوبیه و به نظرم تو کتابهای هم رده بسیار بسیار بهتر نوشته شده .

[Flash]

Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics by beer and johnston
is simply put the worst book i have ever read

advanced calculus is really much much easier than this book
and not because the materiel is hard,
but because the writers have the amazing ability to turn a simple straightforward idea into an incoherent mess.
at some points i would just skip the explanations, because they just make it harder to understand the basic ideas.

the authors also seem to ignore common mathematical notations
and instead of keeping in line with common practices form linear algebra and calculus ,invent their own, making the formulas a mathematical mess

and the problem set couldn't be more annoying
the first half of the book you are nothing more than a human vector calculator.
most of the parameters are given with 3 decimal points, why????
i can understand the ideas just fine ,even if the problems are given in integers ,why make the problems unnecessarily complex.

this book is just horrible!

[Mohammad]

یاد دوران استاتیک بخیر،‌لعنتی دوست داشتنی

[Silvia Gutierrez]

Great for the Statics! if you have the problems solved :)

[Juamarcos Hernandez]

GREAT BOOK

[Amin]

در زمینه استاتیک واقعا کتاب خوبیه و به نظرم تو کتابهای هم رده بسیار بسیار بهتر نوشته شده .

[Christian George]

its great