Essential Engineering Statics: Strategies for Problem Solving

“Essential Engineering Statics” focuses on core concepts, equations, principles, and problem-solving strategies. It is designed to meet the needs of today's students, who wish to extract a concise list of working principles and strategies from a straightforward text uncluttered by secondary information.Effective communication demands brevity and purpose. “Essential Engineering Statics” emphasizes three essential abilities for mastering engineering statics – (1) applying Newton’s 3rd Law, (2) drawing Free-Body Diagrams, and (3) determining the Force-Couple System at a reference location.By limiting the focus on three essential abilities, the book reduces the cognitive load and intends to achieve the following educational objectives:•Readers will learn the principles with precision and be able to interpret and master the physics behind the principles.•Readers will acquire the expertise for deciding when and how to apply the principles in problem solving.•Readers will appreciate the relevance of the principles by solving real life problems.•Readers will organize their knowledge for long-term retention.“Essential Engineering Statics” includes more than 150 solved examples to help the readers acquire the three abilities.