Engineering Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics

New to This Edition In response to suggestions by students and instructors, we have clarified our discussions of many topics, including units used to describe angles, force resultants, friction in threads, kinetic energy of a rigid body, and orbital mechanics. We have added new examples, continuing our use of the Strategy/Solution/Critical Thinking structure. To supplement our coverage, we invited Professor Kenneth M. Liechti of the University of Texas at Austin to contribute a discussion of modern developments in dry friction in Chapter 9. Thirty percent of the problems have been revised or replaced. Problems that are relatively lengthier or more difficult are marked with an asterisk–