This text presents the foundations and applications of statics by emphasizing the importance of visual analysis of topics-especially through the use of free body diagrams. This text also promotes a problem-solving approach to solving examples through its strategy, solution, discussion format in examples. Bedford/Fowler further includes design and computational examples that help instructors integrate these ABET 2000 requirements.

FEATURES/BENEFITS

• NEW Strategy-Solution- Discussion Most examples follow this format.
  • Promotes students thinking critically about the example vs. rote memorization.
• NEW Engineering Design Includes "Application to Engineering" examples that provide discussions of the uses of dynamics in engineering design.
• NEW Emphasizes Application Text places dynamics within the context of engineering practice by including applications from many fields of engineering.
• NEW Optional Student Software Working Model-based Simulation Software specifically for Bedford/Fowler.
• NEW Computational Mechanics Examples Provide optional self-contained examples designed to introduce students to the use of computers in engineering. Professors can use any programming language, or math solver of their choice.
• NEW Extended discussion of normal and tangential components (Ch. 2) Includes 3D motion.
• NEW A revised discussion of reference frames Throughout the text, especially in Chs. 2 and 6.
• NEW Expanded/improved discussion of several topics e.g., impulsive forces, 2D rigid-body kinematics, D''Alembert''s principle, and angular impulse and momentum.
• NEW Expanded discussion of 3D rigid body dynamics (Ch. 9) Includes new examples and problems.
• NEW More than 20% new and revised chapter-end problems.

Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics, Second Edition. This book has quickly earned a place in Engineering schools across the country because it teaches engineering mechanics the way a good instructor would

Problem Solving

• Uses a "Strategy-Solution-Discussion" problem-solving methodology that explains how to approach problems, solve them, and critically judge the results
• Contains "Computational Mechanics" feature with examples and problems that introduce the reader to computer applications in engineering mechanics

Visualization

• Stresses the importance of visual analysis, especially the use of free-body diagrams
• Develops figures gradually and employs "ghosting" techniques to clarify and emphasize concepts-- emulating the way an instructor teaches

Applications

• Places engineering mechanics within the context of engineering practice by including applications from many fields of engineering
• Introduces design principles with the "Application to Engineering" feature using concepts developed in preceding sections of the chapter

  New Features

  Visualization

  • Provides more free-body diagrams to many of the worked examples
  • Separates most of the diagrams showing velocities, accelerations, and forces into a free-body diagram showing the forces and a kinematic diagram showing the accelerations

  Content

  • Extends the discussion of normal and tangential components in Chapter 2 to include three- dimensional motion Includes a revised discussion of reference frames throughout the text, especially in Chapters 2 and 6
  • Improves the discussion of impulsive forces in Chapter 5
  • Improves the discussion of 2D rigid-body kinematics in Chapter 6
  • Expands and improves the discussion of D''Alembert''s principle in Chapter 7
  • Provides a revised and improved discussion of angular impulse and momentum in Chapter 8
  • Expands the discussion of 3D rigid body dynamics in Chapter 9 and provides new examples and problems
  • Offers several new examples throughout the text including more of the popular feature, "Application to Engineering"
  • Includes more than 20% new and revised end-of-chapter problems

  Organization

  • Presents section on Orbital Mechanics in Chapter 3