Study faster‎,‎ learn better‎,‎ and get top grades‎.‎ Modified to conform to the current curriculum‎,‎ "Schaum‎'‎s Outline of Engineering Mechanics‎:‎ Statics" complements these courses in scope and sequence to help you understand its basic concepts‎.‎ The book offers practice on topics such as orthogonal triad of unit vectors‎,‎ dot or scalar product‎,‎ resultant of distributed force system‎,‎ noncoplanar force systems‎,‎ slope of the Shear diagram‎,‎ and slope of the Moment diagram‎.‎ You‎'‎ll also get coverage of the laws of friction‎,‎ rolling resistance‎,‎ the centroid of a continuous quantity‎,‎ and the theorems of Pappus and Guldinus‎.‎ This title is appropriate for the following courses‎:‎ Engineering Mechanics‎;‎ Introduction to Mechanics‎;‎ Statics‎;‎ Mechanical Engineering‎;‎ Engineer‎-in‎-Training Review‎.‎ It features hundreds of solved problems‎.‎ It offers support for all the major textbooks for static courses‎.‎ Topics covered in this title include‎:‎ Vectors‎,‎ Forces‎,‎ Coplanar Force Systems‎,‎ Noncoplanar Force Systems‎,‎ Equilibrium of Coplanar Force Systems‎,‎ Equilibrium of Noncoplanar Force Systems‎,‎ Trusses and Cables‎,‎ Forces in Beams‎,‎ Friction‎,‎ First Moments‎,‎ Centroids‎,‎ and Moments of Inertia‎,‎ and Virtual Work‎.‎