Statics: A Lecturebook

Statics: A Lecturebook is a hybrid textbook/lecture notes set is designed to provide you with an undergraduate-level, engineering-focused introduction to the topic of engineering statics. Stylistically speaking, the text provides you with pertinent background information, while emphasizing fundamental engineering principles, conceptual understanding, and optimal problem solving techniques. The Lecturebook also incorporates an extensive array of practical examples with which you can hone your skills. Rest assured that the material included herein will be key to your future success as a practicing engineer.

Structurally speaking, the text is founded upon the aforementioned hybrid textbook/lecture note format wherein most of factual information is provided in full, while brief in presentation, and extended examples are provided with ample white space, allowing you to actively work the problem with the instructor's assistance inside of a lecture environment, or outside of the lecture environment on your own or with the assistance of online videos.

Statics: A Lecturebook is backed by a wide array of multimedia content, designed specifically for self-paced factual delivery, and ultimately self-learning. The cornerstone of this multimedia content is the set of hundreds of instructor-produced videos, which highlight, in a step-by-step fashion, the problem-solving approaches required for all of the Lecturebook's examples, and the related homework problem sets. Continually updated to leverage the most advanced educational recording methodologies, this content has been proven to be both a favorite with our own students and a very effective asymmetric learning tool. Be sure to leverage these resources as you advance through the course.