Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

VECTOR MECHANICS:  STATICS
Example Problems  for  Recitation MECH 234  &  MECH 235

Text:   Beer & Johnston, Vector Mechanics for Engineers:  Statics, 6th. Edition, McGraw-Hill.

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Vector Concepts Centroids and Distributed Loads Friction
Particle Equilibrium
3D - Space Vectors Equilibrium of a Rigid Body Moments of Inertia
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Rigid Bodies: Moments and Projections Trusses
Couple Systems Machines and Frames

Vector Concepts and Fundamentals:  

Introduction.ppt 1,  18,  2.4 2.9 2. 20 Adding Forces.ppt

Force Vectors, Particle Equilibrium:  

2.22 2.24 2.28 2.41 2.49 2. 51

Space Vectors, Section 2.12: 

2.72 2.74 2.78 2.99 2.107   

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Rigid Bodies: Moments, Projections:

3.1 & 2 3.6   (PowerPt) 3.10   3.19   (in PPT) 3.23 & 33 3.39  
3.47, 3.48       Moment about a Line on 3 sheets:   1of3    2of3    3of3

Couple Systems:  

3.71 or 3.77   3.82 3.83 3.97 3.108 3.120

Equilibrium of a Rigid Body : 

4.1  (ppt)   4.4 4-15 set up in class** 4.19 4.27 4.31
4.67 arc members 4.81 arc members 4.91      

Centroids and Distributed Loads:

5.3 5.17 5.32 5.77 5.82 5.84
  5.75 5.89
 

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Trusses:

6.2, 6.6 and  6.7 6.10  6.17 Method of Sections  

Frames and Machines:

6.99 6.123 6.130      

Moments of Inertia:    

9.1 & 5 for 2 & 6 9.9 & 12 9.10 & 13 9.51 5-25 beam  

Friction and Belt Friction: 

8.1 8.8 8.14 8.121    

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