Essential Engineering Statics: Strategies for Problem Solving

"Essential Engineering Statics" focuses on core concepts, equations, principles, and problem-solving strategies. It is designed to meet the needs of today's students, who wish to extract a concise list of working principles and strategies from a straightforward text uncluttered by secondary information.Effective communication demands brevity and purpose. "Essential Engineering Statics" emphasizes three essential abilities for mastering engineering statics - (1) applying Newton's 3rd Law, (2) drawing Free-Body Diagrams, and ... Read More

"Essential Engineering Statics" focuses on core concepts, equations, principles, and problem-solving strategies. It is designed to meet the needs of today's students, who wish to extract a concise list of working principles and strategies from a straightforward text uncluttered by secondary information.Effective communication demands brevity and purpose. "Essential Engineering Statics" emphasizes three essential abilities for mastering engineering statics - (1) applying Newton's 3rd Law, (2) drawing Free-Body Diagrams, and (3) determining the Force-Couple System at a reference location.By limiting the focus on three essential abilities, the book reduces the cognitive load and intends to achieve the following educational objectives: -Readers will learn the principles with precision and be able to interpret and master the physics behind the principles.-Readers will acquire the expertise for deciding when and how to apply the principles in problem solving.-Readers will appreciate the relevance of the principles by solving real life problems.-Readers will organize their knowledge for long-term retention."Essential Engineering Statics" includes more than 150 solved examples to help the readers acquire the three abilities. Read Less