TY - BOOK AU - Plesha, Michael E. AU - Gray, Gary L. ;Costanzo, Francesco TI - Engineering mechanics: statics SN - 9780073380292 AV - TA 350 .P54 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - New York, NY PB - McGraw Hill Education KW - STATICS N1 - Includes index; Vectors: Force and Position -- Equilibrium of particles -- Moment of a force and equivalent force systems -- Equilibrium of bodies -- Structural analysis and machines -- centroids and distributed force systems -- Internal forces -- friction N2 - Based on classroom teaching experience, this book provide a "step-by-step" learning framework. Each example problem is broken down in a consistent "step-by-step" manner that emphasises a "Problem Solver's Approach" which builds from chapter to chapter and moves from easily solved problems to progressively more difficult ones ER -