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Eduard C. Pestel and William T. Thomson
- [place of publication not identified] : [name of publisher not identified] : c1969
- 400 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes index.
Chapter one : Elementary fundamentals -- Chapter two : General force systems -- Chapter three : Distributed forces -- Chapter four : Internal forces -- Chapter five : Friction -- Chapter six : Virtual work
Mechanics treat the laws of motion of material bodies, including the conditions for their state of rest as a special case of motion and of the application of these laws to problems in engineering, astronomy, and other applied sciences.