A TREATISE ON ELEMENTARY STATICS

By W. BEERN

CONTENTS PART I STATICS 1 FORCES 2 MOMENTS 3 CENTRE OF GRAVITY 4 DISTRIBUTED FORCES 5 TRUSSES 6 BEAMS 7 FRICTION 8 NON-COPLANAR FORCES AND COUPLES 9 VIRTUAL WORK PART II DYNAMICS 10 KINEMATICS OF A POINT 11 KINETICS OF A PARTICLE 12 PLANE MOTION OF A RIGID BODY 13 IMPULSE AND MOMENTUM 14 WORK, POWER AND ENERGY PART III PROBLEMS 15 STATICS 16 DYNAMICS PART IV BACKGROUND MATHEMATICS 17 ALGEBRA REMAINDER THEOREM PRINCIPLE OF UNDETERMINED COEFFICIENTS NUMERICALEVALUATION SEQUENCE SERIES ARITHMETICALPROGRESSION (AP) GEOMETRICALPROGRESSION (GP) CONVERGENCE OF A GEOMETRIC SERIES 18 TRIGONOMETRY 19 CALCULUS TRAPEZOIDAL RULE SIMPSON’S RULE 20 COORDINATE GEOMETRY 21 VECTOR ALGEBRA