Concise and authoritative, this book set the standard for excellence in basic mechanics texts. The major emphasis is on basic principles and problem formulation. Strong effort has been made to show both the cohesiveness of the relatively few fundamental ideas and the great variety of problems that these ideas solve. All of the problems deal with principles and procedures inherent in the design and analysis of engineering structures and mechanical systems with many of the problems referring explicitly to design considerations. Table of Contents PART I: DYNAMICS OF PARTICLES. Introduction to Dynamics. Kinematics of Particles. Kinetics of Particles. Kinetics of Systems of Particles. PART II: DYNAMICS OF RIGID BODIES. Plane Kinematics of Rigid Bodies. Plane Kinetics of Rigid Bodies. Introduction to Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Rigid Bodies. Vibration and Time Responses. Appendix A: Area Moments of Inertia. Appendix B: Mass Moments of Inertia. Appendix C: Selected Topics of Mathematics. Appendix D: Useful Tables. Index.