Synopses & Reviews
Available January '99!
Addison-Wesley is pleased to announce the imminent publication of Anthony Bedford and Wallace Fowler's Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics, Second Edition. The revised textbook will be published in November 1998, available in time for January '99 classes. This book has quickly earned a place in Engineering schools across the country because it teaches engineering mechanics the way a good instructor would.
Hallmark Features
Problem Solving
Uses a "Strategy-Solution-Discussion" problem-solving methodology that explains how to approach problems, solve them, and critically judge the results
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 intoa 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
Other
Provides a thoroughly revised solution manual written by Wallace Fowler
Synopsis
This book will set the standard for how the next generation of engineering students learns mechanics. The authors emphasize an understanding of the fundamental concepts and present the "how and why" of engineering mechanics in a way that has been praised for its clarity and logic. Outstanding features, combined with an excellent assortment of motivational examples, problems, and applications from real engineering situations, has already placed this book in the top flight of engineering mechanics texts.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 x Introduction x Engineering and Mechanics x Learning Mechanics x Fundamental Concepts x Units
Chapter 2 x Motion of a Point x Position, Velocity, and Acceleration x Straight-Line Motion x Curvilinear Motion x Relative Motion
Chapter 3 x Force, Mass, and Acceleration x Newton's Second Law x Equation of Motion for the Center of Mass x Inertial Reference Frames x Applications x Orbital Mechanics
Chapter 4 x Energy Methods x Principle of Work and Energy x Work and Power x Work Done by Particular Forces x Conservation of Energy x Conservative Forces
Chapter 5 x Momentum Methods x Principle of Impulse and Momentum x Conservation of Linear Momentum x Impacts x Angular Momentum x Mass Flows
Chapter 6 x Planar Kinematics of Rigid Bodies x Rigid Bodies and Types of Motion x Rotation about a Fixed Axis x General Motion: Velocities x General Motions: Accelerations x Sliding Contacts x Moving Reference Frames
Chapter 7 x Planar Dynamics of Rigid Bodies x Preview of the Equations of Motion x Momentum Principles for a System of Particles x Derivation of the Equations of Motion x Applications x D'Alembert's Principle
Chapter 8 x Energy and Momentum in Rigid Body Dynamics x Principle of Work and Energy x Work and Potential Energy x Power x Principles of Impulse and Momentum x Impacts
Chapter 9 x Three-Dimensional Kinematics and Dynamics of Rigid Bodies x Kinematics x Angular Momentum x Moments and Products of Inertia x Euler's Equations x Eulerian Angles
Chapter 10 x Vibrations x Conservative Systems x Damped Vibrations x Forced Vibrations