TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beer, Ferdinand P.
AU  - Johnston Jr.,  E. Russell
TI  - Vector mechanics for engineers: statics and dynamics 
SN  - 70044384
AV  - TA 350 .B44 1984 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw Hill Education
KW  - MECHANICS, APPLIED
N1  - Includes index; Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. Statics of Particles -- Chapter Three. Rigid Bodies: Equivalent Systems of Forces -- Chapter Four. Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies -- Chapter Five. Distributed Forces: Centroids and Centers of Gravity -- Chapter Six. Analysis of Structures -- Chapter Seven. Forces in Beams and Cables -- Chapter Eight. Friction -- Chapter Nine. Distributed Forces: Moments of Inertia -- Chapter Ten. Method of Virtual Work -- Chapter Eleven -- Kinematics of Particles -- Chapter Twelve: Kinetics of Particles: Newton's Second Law -- Chapter Thirteen. Kinetics of Particles: Energy and Momentum Methods -- Chapter Fourteen. Systems of Particles -- Chapter Fifteen. Kinematics of Rigid Bodies -- Chapter Sixteen. Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Forces and Accelerations -- Chapter Seventeen. Plane Motion of Rigid Bodies: Energy and Momentum Methods -- Chapter Eighteen. Kinetics of Rigid Bodies in Three Dimensions-- Chapter Nineteen. Mechanical Vibrations
N2  - The main objective of a first course in mechanics should be develop in the engineering student the ability to analyze any problem in a simple and logical manner and to apply to its solution few, well-understood, basic principles
ER  -