TY - BOOK AU - Bedford,Anthony AU - Fowler,Wallace L. TI - Engineering mechanics: statics SN - 0130324728 U1 - 620.1 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. PB - Prentice Hall KW - Statics KW - Mechanics, Applied N1 - CONTENT 1Introduction 1.1 Engineering and Mechanics 1.2 Learning Mechanics 1.3 Fundamental Concepts 1.4 Units 1.5 Newtonian gravitation 2 Vectors 2.1 Scalars and vectors 2.2 Rules for Manipulating Vectors 2.3 Components in Two Dimensions 2.4 Components in Three Dimensions 2.5 Dot Products etc 3 Forces 3.1 Types of Forces 3.2 Equilibrium and free body Diagrams 3.3 Two Dimensional Force systems 3.4 Three Dimensional Force systems 4 Systems of Forces and Moments 4.1 Two Dimensional Description of the moment 4.2 The Moment Vector 4.3 Moment of a force about a line 4.4 Couples 4.5 Representing Systems by Equivalent Systems etc 5 Objects in Equilibrium 5.1 The Equilibrium Equations 5.2 Two Dimessional Applications 5.3 Statically Indeterminate objects etc 6 Structures in Equilibrium 6.1 Trusses 6.2 The method of joints 6.3 The method of sections etc 7 Centroids and Centers of Mass 7.1 Centroids of Areas 7.2Centroids of Composite Areas 7.3 Distributed Loads etc 8 Moments of Inertia 8.1 Definitions 8.2 Parallel Axis Theorems 8.4 Simple Objects 8.5 Parallel Axis Theorem 9 Friction 9.1 Theory of dry Friction 9.2 Applications 10 Internal Forces And Moments 10.1 Axial force, Shear Force, and Bending Moment 10.2 Shear Force, and Bending Moment Diagrams etc 11 Virtual Work and Potential Energy 11.1 Virtual Work 11.2 Potential Energy; Includes Index p.573-583 ER -