Mechanics

J. P. Den Hartog

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Dover Publications Inc.
01 June 1961

Mathematics & Sciences; Classical mechanics

Series: Dover Books on Physics

"This classic introductory text features hundreds of applications and design problems that illuminate fundamentals of trusses, loaded beams and cables, and related areas. Includes 334 answered problems.

First published over 40 years ago, this work has achieved the status of a classic among introductory texts on mechanics. Den Hartog is known for his lively, discursive and often witty presentations of all the fundamental material of both statics and dynamics (and considerable more advanced material) in new, original ways that provide students with insights into mechanical relationships that other books do not always succeed in conveying. On the other hand, the work is so replete with engineering applications and actual design problems that it is as valuable as a reference to the practicing engineer as it is as a text or refresher for the general engineering student.

Mechanics is not a ""heavy"" book, despite the amount of material it covers and the clarity and exactness with which it treats this material. It is undoubtedly one of the most readable texts in the field. More than 550 drawings and diagrams in the regular text and in the highly praised 112-page section of problems and answers further contribute to its lucidity and value. The emphasis is consistently on illuminating fundamental principles and in showing how they are embodied in a high number of real engineering and design problems concerning trusses, loaded cables, beams, jacks, hoists, brakes, cantilevers, springs, balances, pendulums, projectiles, cranks, linkages, propellers, turbines, fly ball engine governors, hydraulic couplings, anti-roll devices, gyroscopes, and hundreds of other mechanical systems and devices.

Chapters cover Discrete Coplanar Forces, Conditions of Equilibrium, Distributed Forces, Trusses and Cables, Beams, Friction, Space Forces, The Method of Work, Kinematics of a Point, Dynamics of a Particle, Kinematics of Plane Motion, Moments of Inertia, Dynamics of Plane Motion, Work and Energy, Impulse and Momentum, Relative Motion, and Gyroscopes.

AUTHOR: J. P. Den Hartog (19011989), who taught for most of his career at MIT, was one of the founders of the Dover reprint program in engineering. As the author of several books that Dover reprinted and still has in print, and as an advisor from the 1950s until just a few years before his death in 1989, Professor Den Hartog gave invaluable advice concerning books of lasting interest and importance in his field."

By: J. P. Den Hartog
Imprint: Dover Publications Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 205mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780486607542
ISBN 10: 0486607542
Series: Dover Books on Physics
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 01 June 1961
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , A / AS level , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

PREFACE CHAPTER I-DISCRETE COPLANAR FORCES 1. Introduction 2. Forces 3. Parallelogram of Forces 4. Cartesian Components CHAPTER II-CONDITIONS OF EQUILIBRIUM 5. Moments 6. Couples 7. Equations of Equilibrium 8. Applications CHAPTER III-DISTRIBUTED FORCES 9. Parallel Forces 10. Centers of Gravity 11. Distributed Loadings 12. Hydrostatics CHAPTER IV-TRUSSES AND CABLES 13. Method of Sections 14. Method of Joints 15. Funicular Polygons 16. Uniformity Loaded Cables CHAPTER V-BEAMS 17. Bending Moments in Beams 18. Distributed Beam Loadings CHAPTER VI-FRICTION 19. Definition 20. Applications CHAPTER VII-SPACE FORCES 21. Composition of Forces and Couples 22. Conditions of Equilibrium 23. Applications 24. Space Frames 25. Straight and Curved Beans CHAPTER VIII-THE METHOD OF WORK 26. A Single Rigid Body 27. Systems of Bodies 28. Applications 29. Stability of Equilibrium CHAPTER IX-KINEMATICS OF A POINT 30. Rectilinear and Angular Motion 31. Motion in Space 32. Applications CHAPTER X-DYNAMICS OF A PARTICLE 33. Newton's Laws 34. Rectilinear Motion of a Particle 35. Curvilinear Motion of a Particle 36. Systems of Two Particles CHAPTER XI-KINEMATICS OF PLANE MOTION 37. Velocities 38. Accelerations CHAPTER XII-MOMENTS OF INERTIA 39. The Principle of d'Alembert 40. General Properties 41. Specific Examples CHAPTER XIII-DYNAMICS OF PLANE MOTION 42. Rotation about a Fixed Axis 43. Examples of Fixed-axis Rotation 44. General Motion in a Plane 45. Examples on General Plane Motion CHAPTER XIV-WORK AND ENERGY 46 Kinetic Energy of a Particle 47. Potential Energy; Efficiency; Power 48. Energy of Plane Bodies 49. Applications CHAPTER XV-IMPULSE AND MOMENTUM 50. Linear Momentum 51. Angular Momentum 52. Applications 53. Impact CHAPTER XVI-RELATIVE MOTION 54. Introduction 55. Non-rotating Vehicles 56. Rotating Vehicles; Coriolis's Law 57. Applications CHAPTER XVII-GYROSCOPES 58. Theorems on Rotation in Space 59. Discussion of the Theorems 60. The Principle Theorem of the Gyroscope 61. Applications 62. The Gyroscopic Ship's Compass PROBLEMS ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS LIST OF EQUATIONS INDEX

J. P. Den Hartog: The Reprint Engineer J. P. Den Hartog (1901-1989), who taught for most of his career at MIT, was one of the founders of the Dover reprint program in engineering. As the author of several books that Dover reprinted and still has in print, and as an advisor from the 1950s until just a few years before his death in 1989, Professor Den Hartog gave invaluable advice concerning books of lasting interest and importance in his field. Not many books in engineering have a productive shelf life spanning several decades. Among the exceptions are these four books of Professor Den Hartog, which Dover reprinted and occasionally revised in later printings from 1961 through 1987: Mechanics, 1961, Strength of Materials, 1961, Mechanical Vibrations, 1985, and Advanced Strength of Materials, 1987. Still widely read and cited by authors in these areas, Den Hartog's books are a tribute to his gift for exposition and clarity. The J. P. Den Hartog Award, established in 1987, is presented in recognition of lifetime contributions to the teaching and practice of vibration engineering.

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Mechanics

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