Schaum's Outline of Engineering Mechanics: Statics, Seventh Edition

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More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum’s to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum’s is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. 

This Schaum’s Outline gives you:

• 628 fully solved problems to reinforce knowledge
• 1 final practice exam
• Hundreds of examples with explanations of statics concepts
• Extra practice on topics such as orthogonal triad of unit vectors, resultant of distributed force system, noncoplanar force systems, slope of the Shear diagram, and slope of the Moment diagram
• Support for all the major textbooks for statics courses

Access to revised Schaums.com website with access to 25 problem-solving videos and more.


Schaum’s reinforces the main concepts required in your course and offers hundreds of practice questions to help you succeed. Use Schaum’s to shorten your study time - and get your best test scores!

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E.W. Nelson graduated from New York University with a B.S.M.E. and an M.Adm.E. He taught Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College and later joined the engineering organization of the Western Electric Company (now Lucent Technologies). Retired from Western Electric, he is currently a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 


Charles L. Best is Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Lafayette College. He holds a B.S. in M.E. from Princeton, an M.S. in Mathematics from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He is coauthor of two books on engineering mechanics and coauthor of another book on FORTRAN programming for engineering students. 


W.G. McLean is Emeritus Director of Engineering at Lafayette College. He holds a B.S. E.E. from Lafayette College, a Sc.M. from Brown University, and an honorary Eng.D. from Lafayette College. Professor McLean is the coauthor of two books on engineering mechanics, is past president of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, and is active in the codes and standards committees of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.


Merle Potter received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Michigan Technological University. He obtained an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Michigan. He is professor emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University.