Statics and Dynamics Reference Recommendations?

Factual Questions
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I am being forced to take Statics and Dynamics as an indepentant study course at my school. Not enough people need it right now for the school to offer it. Unfortunatley I am the king of taking classes out of cycle and now need this class to ensure my timely graduation as a EE.

The text book I am using is “Vector Mechanics for Engineers 5th ed by Beer and Johnston Jr.” and it is not TOO bad of a read. I am trying to find something like a Schaums book, or something similar that will focus on application more than theory and have many practice problems to work. I need to do this because I am teaching myself in 6 weeks what most students learn in a classroom in 11 weeks.

Does anyone have any recommendations of some “easy reading” books, if theres such a thing on this subject, or maybe some websites that have good info I may be able to reference?

Please keep in mind that this is an undergraduate lvl course and anything that is too complex may be over my head and make the situation worse.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I have that book - it is a decent general-level book.

There is a Schaum’s book that covers the same subject - I have seen it, although I found its sample problems to be somewhat poorly explained. I will look in my library and see if I can find something that can help - but my specialty is thermal, so don’t hold your breath.

Una

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I used the book you have and quite honestly I don’t know of a better one.

I TA’d in graduate school, although not in S&D, and got to talk to quite a few undergrads and saw the books they were using at the time and I never saw one I thought was better.

I don’t mean to be unhelpful, I’m just suggesting that if you go over the material thoroughly the book you have should suffice.