Potter Merle C. - Schaums Outline of Engineering Mechanics Dynamics

Copyright 2021, 2011, 1998, 1988, 1978, 1972 by McGraw Hill. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-1-26-046287-6
MHID: 1-26-046287-0 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: ISBN: 978-1-26-046286-9, MHID: 1-26-046286-2. eBook conversion by codeMantra
Version 1.0 All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark.

Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill Education eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions or for use in corporate training programs. To contact a representative, please visit the Contact Us page at www.mhprofessional.com. Trademarks: McGraw Hill, the McGraw Hill logo, Schaums, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of McGraw Hill and/or its affiliates in the United States. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. McGraw Hill is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book.

TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and McGraw-Hill Education and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this work is subject to these terms. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the right to store and retrieve one copy of the work, you may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, reproduce, modify, create derivative works based upon, transmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish or sublicense the work or any part of it without McGraw-Hill Educations prior consent. You may use the work for your own noncommercial and personal use; any other use of the work is strictly prohibited. Your right to use the work may be terminated if you fail to comply with these terms. THE WORK IS PROVIDED AS IS.

McGRAW-HILL EDUCATION AND ITS LICENSORS MAKE NO GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY OR COMPLETENESS OF OR RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED FROM USING THE WORK, INCLUDING ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN BE ACCESSED THROUGH THE WORK VIA HYPERLINK OR OTHERWISE, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. McGraw-Hill Education and its licensors do not warrant or guarantee that the functions contained in the work will meet your requirements or that its operation will be uninterrupted or error free. Neither McGraw-Hill Education nor its licensors shall be liable to you or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omission, regardless of cause, in the work or for any damages resulting therefrom. McGraw-Hill Education has no responsibility for the content of any information accessed through the work. Under no circumstances shall McGraw-Hill Education and/or its licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential or similar damages that result from the use of or inability to use the work, even if any of them has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

*The video icon next to an exercise indicates that the exercise is also available as a video with step-by-step instructions. *The video icon next to an exercise indicates that the exercise is also available as a video with step-by-step instructions.

These videos are available on the Schaums.com website by following the instructions on the inside front cover.

MERLE C. POTTER has engineering degrees from Michigan Technological University and the University of Michigan. He has coauthored Statics, Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, The Mechanics of Fluids, Thermodynamics for Engineers, Thermal Sciences, Differential Equations, Engineering Analysis, Engineering Your Future, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, and Jump Start the HP-48G in addition to numerous exam review books. His research involved fluid flow stability and energy-related topics. He has received numerous awards, including the ASMEs 2008 James Harry Potter Gold Medal.

He is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. 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. He is a registered Professional Engineer and a member of Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma. CHARLES L. BEST (deceased) was Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Lafayette College. He held a B.S. in mathematics from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in applied mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. in applied mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

He is coauthor of two books on engineering mechanics and coauthor of another book on FORTRAN programming for engineering students. He was a member of Tau Beta Pi. W. G. McLEAN (deceased) was Emeritus Director of Engineering at Lafayette College. from Lafayette College, an Sc.M. from Brown University, and an honorary Eng.D. from Lafayette College. from Lafayette College.

Professor McLean is the coauthor of two books on engineering mechanics, was past president of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, and was active in the codes and standards committees of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was a registered Professional Engineer and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.

This book is designed to supplement standard texts, primarily to assist students of engineering and science in acquiring a more thorough knowledge and proficiency in dynamics, the course that follows statics in the mechanics sequence. It is based on the authors conviction that numerous solved problems constitute one of the best means for clarifying and fixing in mind the basic principles. While this book will not mesh precisely with any one text, the authors feel that it can be a very valuable adjunct to all. The previous editions of this book have been very favorably received.

This edition incorporates SI units only. This eliminates the problems encountered when mixing units and allows students to focus on the subject being studied. The authors attempt to use the best mathematical tools available to students at the sophomore level. Thus the vector approach is applied in those chapters where its techniques provide an elegance and simplicity in theory and problems. On the other hand, we have not hesitated to use scalar methods elsewhere, since they provide entirely adequate solutions to many of the problems. is a complete review of the minimum number of vector definitions and operations necessary for the entire book, and applications of this introductory chapter are made throughout the book.

Chapter topics correspond to material usually covered in a standard introductory dynamics course. Most chapters contain the appropriate derivations along with examples that illustrate the basic principles. The text material is followed by graded sets of solved and supplementary problems. The solved problems serve to illustrate and amplify the theory, present methods of analysis, provide practical examples, and bring into sharp focus those fine points that enable the student to apply the basic principles correctly and confidently. Numerous derivations of formulas are also included among the solved problems. The many supplementary problems serve as a review of the material covered in each chapter.