Introduction to Statics and Dynamics No files on this page may be emailed to anyone or posted on any site or printed without the authors' written permission.
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Introduction to Statics and Dynamics No files on this page may be emailed to anyone or posted on any site or printed without the authors' written permission.
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The story. In 1992 we didn't like the Dynamics text books. About 10 textbook authors warned us "Don't write a book." Its more work than you think, there's slight, or more likely, negative academic rewards, there's small chance of making money and there's a large chance of losing money. They were right. But it hasn't been all bad. Most years we have worked together for a month or so in Ithaca, the Åland Islands (Finland), or Bangalore. We have re-organized the book 4 or 5 times. We added a Statics book because many students' dynamics issues (vectors and free body diagrams) have their roots there. Saunders Publishing contracted the book but then sold it to Oxford University Press. Various pre-release versions of this book have been used at Cornell about 14 times and also at a few other schools. The book has had about 20 external reviews. Imperfect as a pre-release book commonly is, we think it is better than other books in some ways. Read the Preface and Introduction to get a sense of that.
Use it for a course?: Ask.
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for the solutions manual? Please do.
Suggestions for improvement of any kind are MOST WELCOME. For example, have you looked for something in the book and had trouble finding it? Whether you eventually found it or not, we'd like to know. That is, we want it to be easier for students or people using the book as a reference to find what they need in the book. Or, is there something that you think could be explained better? Give us some clues about your confusions.
Make money if you are the first to find an error: $1.00 for math errors, $5 for real errors or things that really deeply need fixing (with suggestion about how to fix). How? List errors like this (if John Smith is your name and the date is 9/3/09):
Sect 13.2, pg 642, paragraph above "More about pendula". -John Smith 9/3/09
In the argument of the exponentials change gt/l to +- sqrt(g/l)t.Send to ruina@cornell.edu (subject: TEXT ERRORS)
Spring 2009 version:
Hardbound, 2-color: 16 chapters, 997 pages. Bookstore price about $95. Errata
(Spring 2009),
Aug 7, 2008 Full book: Chapters1-16 w/ index and some answers (997 pages, 28 meg)
Two one-color spiral-bound volumes available as of Aug 28, 2008 for $75 ($72 at Kraftees).
TWO ISSUES:
1) A few of the books are missing printing on the inside covers. If yours is one of these (check all 4 inside covers) ask Andy for stickers to put in your book.
2) The (terrible) spiral binding will be more likely to hold together if you put a drop of glue (superglue or plastic cement) on the three latching plastic tabs.
Spring 2008 version:
4/26/08 Chapters 1-14 w/ index and some answers only minor edits to 1-13 (42 megabytes)
Spring 2007 version:
1/23/07: Chapters1-9
2/15/07: Updated chapter 9 problems (some corrections, new collision problems)
2/18/07: Chapter 10
3/8/07 : Chapter 11
3/13/07: Chapter 12
4/5/07: Chapter 13
4/22/07: Chapter 142002 version: (This version was printed with perfect-binding paperback, with glossy blue cover and bike and badminton photos on the cover.)
Ruina/Pratap "whole book" with no problems (11 meg pdf, January 2002 version)
Ruina/Pratap, problems only (6.4 meg pdf)
Center of mass (The "whole book" above is missing this section.)
D'Alambert beware (The "whole book" above is missing this section.)