About Book:

       Fundamentals of Engineering Mechanics is designed as an essential textbook for all engineering students. Adequately equipped with numerous solved problems and exercises, this book provides sufficient material for the one year course for first year students or one semester course for second year students in Engineering Mechanics The book is comprehensive enough to serve as a reference for practising engineers and for those preparing for competitive examinations. This book has been specifically written with the following points in mind.

• To explain clearly the fundamental concepts and principles underlying Engineering Mechanics.
• To provide fresh undergraduate engineering students with adequate information for reasonable understanding.
• To illustrate the application of numerical methods to solve engineering problems with mathematical models.
• To introduce students to the use of computer applications to solve Engineering Mechanics problems.

Some of the student-friendly features of this book that make it both special and useful are the following:

• This book is organised to achieve a continuous step-by-step build of the subject.
• Within each chapter, topics and sequentially coherent subtopics are carefully organised and explained distinctly.
• An abundance of solved example problems have been provided to illustrate all phases of the topic under consideration. In this manner, the text facilitates a clear grasp of many difficult concepts such as Space forces. Moment of Inertia, Virtual Work, Curvilinear Motion and Kinetics, besides providing systematic approach to problem solving.
• The extensive applicability of the basic principles of this subject is emphasised so that the student can use these principles and concepts to solve a variety of problems.
• Graded unsolved problems with answer are included at the end of each chapter to give the students opportunities to check their progress.
• All chapters include several spreadsheet problems for the modelling of physical phenomena, which enable the student to obtain graphical representations of physical quantities and perform numerical analysis of problems without recourse to a high-level computer language. MS-Office 97-Excel spreadsheets are particularly valuable in explanatory investigations, since “What if” questions can be addressed easily and depicted graphically. Problem solving using EXCEL spreadsheets will motivate the students to test their ability as they progress through the text.
• The international system of units is used throughout the text.
• Each chapter contains a summary which reviews the important concepts and equations discussed in that chapter and serves as a handy reference for pre examination review.
• Free body diagrams are discussed in great detail, since they constitute the foundation of engineering mechanics.
• Appendices, which include vector and matrix algebra, solution of nonlinear equations, mathematical formulae and numerical integration are provided