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Vector Mechanics for Engineers, Statics and Dynamics

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ISBN-10: 0072931108

ISBN-13: 9780072931105

Edition: 7th 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Ferdinand Pierre Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Elliot R. Eisenberg, William E. Clausen, George H. Staab

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List price: $170.31
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 7/8/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1312
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 5.852
Language: English

Born in Philadelphia, Russ holds a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Delaware and an Sc.D. degree in the field of structural engineering from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He taught at Lehigh University and Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) before joining the faculty of the University of Connecticut where he held the position of Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department and taught for twenty-six years. In 1991 Russ received the Outstanding Civil Engineer Award from the Connecticut Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

1 Introduction 2 Statics of Particles 3 Rigid Bodies: Equivalent Systems of Forces 4 Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies 5 Distributed Forces: Centroids and Centers of Gravity 6 Analysis of Structures 7 Forces in Beams and Cables 8 Friction 9 Distributed Forces: Moments of Inertia 10 Method of Virtual Work 11 Kinematics of Particles 12 Kinetics of Particles: Newton's Second Law 13 Kinetics of Particles: Energy and Momentum Methods 14 Systems of Particles 15 Kinematics of Rigid Bodies 16 Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Forces and Accelerations 17 Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Energy and Momentum Methods 18 Kinetics of Rigid Bodies in Three Dimensions 19 Mechanical Vibrations Appendix Fundamentals of…