This is a book that can be used by instructors to get ideas for assessment questions, and by students to revise and consolidate what they know about mechanics, in preparation for being assessed.
It is divided into 24 chapters, each one focusing on one topic in mechanics. In each chapter, relevant to that topic, are true/false quizzes, questions requiring short descriptive answers and questions requiring calculations. Altogether there are 45 true/false quizzes of 10 questions each, 136 illustrated calculation questions and 8 exercise suitable for tackling by groups. Every one of the exercises have been compiled by the author and nearly all of them have been tested on successive classes of students.
Contents
The purpose of this book ....................................................................
Getting the most out of testing your own knowledge.......................
Sets of exercises grouped by topic
- Concepts, quantities, principles and laws ....................................
- Expressing numbers in engineering ............................................
- Forces: components, resultants and equilibrium of particles ......
- Force moments, torque and equilibrium of rigid bodies ..............
- Centres of mass, centres of gravity and centroids .....................
- Forces in structures ....................................................................
- Friction between dry sliding surfaces .........................................
- Buoyancy ...................................................................................
- Linear motion with uniform acceleration ....................................
- Motion influenced by gravity: vertical and projectile motion ......
- Rotational motion .......................................................................
- Work, energy and power ...........................................................
- Simple lifting machines ..............................................................
- Inertia in linearly accelerating systems ......................................
- Linear momentum and impulse .................................................
- Relative velocity .........................................................................
- Centrifugal and centripetal forces ..............................................
- Rotational inertia .......................................................................
- Rotational and linear inertia combined ......................................
- Kinetic energy of rotation and angular momentum ...................
- Simple harmonic motion ............................................................
- Basic vehicle dynamics .............................................................
- Combinations of a variety of the above topics ...........................
- Exercises suitable for tackling in groups ....................................
Appendix: This author's series 'Basic Engineering Mechanics Explained'
About the author ....................................................................
Answers to the true/false tests ........................................
