Marks' Mechanics Problem-Solving Companion

• Provides material that will drill mechanical and civil engineers in problem-solving techniques
• Covers the core areas: Statics, Dynamics, and Strength of Materials
• Includes hundreds of worked-out problems and practice problems

• Hone problem-solving skills with 100s of solved and practice examples that force you to approach problems from different angles
• Survive the "weeding-out" freshman and sophomore years of engineering when you must prove you can handle the math
• Overcome the most difficult aspect of engineering—the mathematical problems
• Polish and improve your most valuable engineering asset: problem-solving techniques
• Build skills in all core areas: statics, dynamics, and strength of materials
• Target areas of difficulty
• Find answers to practice problems Mathematical theory is fully described in easy to understand language.

Problem sets for a foundation in mechanical engineering

Contents

Part I: Statics.

• Chapter 1: Preliminaries.
• Chapter 2: Forces and Moments.
• Chapter 3: Free Body Diagrams.
• Chapter 4: Applications.
• Chapter 5: Mass Integrals and Area Integrals.

• Chapter 6: Newton's Laws of Motions.
• Chapter 7: Coordinate Systems.
• Chapter 8: Energy and Momentum.
• Chapter 9: Rigid Body Dynamics.

• Chapter 10: Introduction to Deformation and Stress.
• Chapter 11: Axial Deformation and Stress.
• Chapter 12: Torsional Deformation and Stress.
• Chapter 13: Bending Deformation and Stress.
• Chapter 14: General Stress—Strain Relationships.
• Chapter 15: Combined Deformation and Stress.
• Chapter 16: Special Topics.
• Appendix A.1: Material Properties.
• Appendix A.2: Mass Integrals and Area Integrals.