Basic Mechanics
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
A short and practical introduction to the principles of statics: static equilibrium, static determinacy, vectors and their resultants, moments and the analysis of simple structures. Written for people who need the mechanics behind a building, not the full theory.
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Defines forces and moments as vectors, builds the free body diagram from them, and then uses the equations of static equilibrium to solve for reaction forces and moments. The worked cases come from optical mounting, where a millimetre of unwanted motion matters.
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Opens with a step by step procedure for drawing a free body diagram, then covers types of supports and their reactions, Varignon's theorem, moments and couples, and the equilibrium of rigid bodies in both two and three dimensions. Ends with virtual work.
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Works the lever law and its generalised form, then applies both to a suspended rod, a person standing on a hill and the forces inside a knee. An appendix proves that the torques about any two points are equal for a body in static equilibrium.
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A tight summary of the equilibrium conditions for a rigid object, stated first as vector equations and then reduced to the two dimensional case you will actually use. Almost every page is a solved problem rather than theory.
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