This second edition provides a practical and thorough text for the student engineer,written throughout in SI units. The author has taken care to keep formulae to a minimum and where possible, worked examples are used to illustrate the application of basic principles to engineering problems.
For this new edition symbols and nomenclature have updated and additional material has been included on prime movers, simple navigational problems, and the basic mechanics of aircraft, rockets and satellite motion.
This classic text will be invaluable for students on BTEC National Certificate and Diploma courses in Engineering. Motor Vehicle Work and Science, and will be useful to those undertaking related City and Guilds courses. This title, combined with the Authors Applied Mechanics, covers most of the requirements of a number of BTEC study units up to level lll.
1. Statics
2. Moment, Couple, and torque
3. Polygon of forces; frameworks
4. Friction
5. Work and Power
6. Machines
7. Motion; Velocity and acceleration
8. Force and Acceleration
9. Momentum and energy
10. Uniform motion in a circular path
,etc.