Engineering Statics is a fundamentals textbook
which serves as the building blocks for future courses in
engineering, in particular mechanics of solids. Engineering
Statics explains the material in a clear fashion and applies the
material to everyday use giving engineering students a strong
foundation to build from and a better retention of knowledge. The author has
used his many years of experience teaching and his own research
in this area to develop this textbook.
Engineering Statics is distinct in that it resolves the areas that some of the most popular Statics textbooks
fail. These areas include: a lack of or overemphasis on the role of vectors
in analyzing structures, a lack of physical feel due to an
emphasis on structural problems, and a lack of systematic
approach for analyzing statically indeterminate structures. It
was with the author's insight into these shortcomings and an understanding of various teaching
instruments that this book was created.
New to the third edition:
The third edition of Engineering Statics contains several
important enhancements. This textbook now features a greater discussion
of every topic. Fifty pages of additional material are focused
on showing how everyday situations are illustrations of Statics
concepts. Selected exercises have been formatted in Excel™
and are included on an enclosed CD. Answers selected problems are
now shown in
the back of the book, and color versions of the graphics have been included
on the enclosed CD. The instructor resources for this book have
also been updated and greatly expanded.
This textbook uses six teaching instruments:
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Case studies
Case studies help students learn from historic
failures and successes, apply previously-tested knowledge,
and realize the intended and unintended social and economic
consequences of technology.
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Short design examples
Design examples provide students with focused opportunities to improve
their skill set.
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Intelligent formulation problems
Intelligent formulation problems nurture the ability to identify
alternative approaches to formulating the problem.
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Conceptual questions
Conceptual questions help to rectify misconceptions and
promote long term conceptual understanding of the
material.
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Worksheets
Worksheets offer students the chance to systematically
improve their skill sets. Introductory worksheets offer a
large number of simple problems that focus on a specific
concept. Once students are comfortable with the individual
concepts, the challenge worksheets develop their strategic
thinking skills.
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Excel™ formatted problems
Exercises formatted in Excel™ allow students to better
analyze problems by changing variables. It also teaches them
skills they can use in subsequent courses.
Excel Formatted Problems
Exercises formatted in Excel™ include step-by-step
instructions for students to create the shear force and bending moment
diagrams using Excel™. This enables students to model complex loading conditions and
analyze beam deformation and stresses on there own. The
book also uses Excel™
to demonstrate the impact of relationships between two or more functions.
Selected problems in Excel™ format are also available for
instructor use. This allows instructors to easily generate new
problems and answers for each semester. You can download a
sample here.
