Table of Contents
STATICS
Mechanics is
Mechanics is Divided into Three Parts:
Mechanics of Rigid Bodies
Mechanics of fluids
Mechanics is:
The Basic Concepts Used in Mechanics are:
SPACE
TIME
MASS
FORCE
Force is Characterized by:
The Study of Elementary Mechanics
These fundamental principles are:
The Parallelogram Law for the Addition of Forces
The Principle of Transmissibility
Newton’s First Law
Newton’s Second Law
Newton’s Third Law
Newton’s Law of Gravitation
Newton’s Second Law may be stated as:
Newton’s Law of Gravitation can be given by the formula:
SYSTEMS OF UNITS
International System of Units (SI Units)
U.S. Customary Units
THE BASIC CONVERSIONS
Things you don’t need to know to live to be a hundred or pass this course
THE NEWTON (N)
The Weight of a Body (SI Units)
The Weight of a Body (Customary Units)
Multiples and Submultiples of SI Units
Conversion of (SI) Units
Conversion in Customary Units
Conversion from One System to the Other
Method of Problem Solution
Method of Problem Solution (continued)
Method of Problem Solution (continued) Things that you should not do.
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