Engineering Mechanics

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. I. Statics: 1. Basic concepts. 2. Force systems and resultants. 3. Equilibrium. 4. Analysis of trusses and frames. 5. Friction. 6. Virtual work. 7. Centroids and centres of mass. 8. Moments of inertia. II. Dynamics: 9. Kinematics of particles. 10. Kinetics of particles. 11. Kinematics of rigid bodies. 12. Kinetics of Rigid bodies. 13. Work energy method. 14. Impulse and momentum. 15. Mechanical vibrations. Appendix. References. Index.

"This textbook focuses on the basic concepts of Engineering Mechanics for providing the fundamental knowledge required for understanding advanced subjects based on mechanics.

Salient features:

• Importance of free body diagrams for the analysis of problems has been explained.
• Three important methods for dynamic problems: i) Newton's second law of motion. ii) Work-Energy method and iii) Impulse-momentum method.
• More than 150 sample problems with solutions have been provided for explaining the applications of important principles.
• Fundamentals of mechanical vibrations have been explained with free-body diagrams.
• Multiple choice questions have been included."