The authors have ensured syllabus-match for the leading UK courses at this level: AVCE optional units Mechanical Engineering Principles and Further Mechanical Engineering Principles, and the new BTEC National unit: Mechanical Principles.
Preface; Part one: Statics and strength of materials The effects of forces on materials Tensile testing Forces acting at a point Forces in structures Simple supported beams Bending moment and shear force diagrams First and second moments of area Bending of beams Torque, Twisting of shafts; Part two:Dynamics Linear and angular velocity Linear momentum and impulse Force mass and acceleration Work Energy and Power Friction Motion in a circle Simple harmonic motion Simple machines; Part three: Heat transfer and fluid mechanics Heat energy and transfer Thermal expansion Hydrostatics Fluid flow Ideal gas laws The measurement of temperature List of formulae Index