Book Description

Excerpt from Analytical Mechanics for Engineers This book, as its name suggests, presents those principles of mechanics that are believed to be essential for the student of engineering. Throughout the book the aim has been to make the principles of mechanics stand out clearly; to build them up as much as possible from common experience (the student's experience); to apply the principles to concrete problems of practical value; and to emphasize the physical rather than the mathematical interpretation of the principles. Important equations are printed in bold-faced type and the statements of the more important principles are italicized. The book is divided into three parts; namely, Statics, Kinematics, and Kinetics. Statics is presented first because of its simplicity and its direct relation to the students experience. However, in the first two chapters are developed certain concepts and elementary principles that are fully as important in kinetics as in statics, and the authors feel that it is essential to a satisfactory grasp of mechanics, as a whole, that sufficient time and care be taken to cause these elementary concepts and principles to crystallize in the students mind before the more general principles and problems are studied. The equilibrium of the various types of force systems are treated both by the algebraic and by the graphical method. A large number of problems involving the equilibrium of the simpler structures and machines are given, and figures illustrating the structures and machines are used freely. Although kinematics as herein developed is mainly a preliminary to kinetics, the authors' experience indicates that the kinematic properties of motion must be isolated and developed with care if they are to be used with success in the study of the kinetics of the motion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.