statics

Mechanics is a branch of the physical sciences that is concerned

with the state of rest or motion of bodies that and subjected to
action of force.

Statics deals with the equilibrium of bodies. that is. those that are
either al rest or move with constant velocity: whereas

Dynamics is concerned with the accelerated motion of bodies

So statics is special case of dynamics

• Fundamental Concepts
• Length: Used to locate position of a point in space (m, ft)
• Time: is conceived as a succession of events (sec)
• Mass: is a measure of a quantity of matter (kg, slug)
• Force. In general it is considered as a "push" or "pull "' exerted by
one body on another (N, lb)
• Particle: has a mass. but a size that can be neglected
• Rigid Body: can be considered as a combination of a large number of
particles in which all the particles remain at a fixed distances from
one another
• Concentrated Force: represents the effect of a loading which is
assumed to act at a point on a body
• Newton's Three laws of Motion
• First law. A particle originally at rest or moving in a straight line with
constant velocity tends to remain in this State provided the particle is
not subjected to an unbalanced force
• Law I. A particle remains at rest or continues to move with uniform
velocity (in a straight line with a constant speed) if there is no
unbalanced force acting on it.
• Law II. The acceleration of a particle is proportional to the vector sum
of forces acting on it, and is in the direction of this vector sum.
• F = ma
• Law III. The forces of action and reaction between interacting bodies
are equal in magnitude, opposite in direction, and collinear (they lie
on the same line).
Chapter 2: Force Vectors
• 2.1 Scalars and Vectors
• Scalar quantities are those with which only a magnitude is associated.
Examples of scalar quantities are time, volume, density, speed, energy
• Vector quantities, on the other hand, possess direction as well as
magnitude, and must obey the parallelogram law of addition as
described later in this article. Examples of vector quantities are
displacement, velocity, acceleration, force, moment, and momentum.
• 2.2 Vector Operations

• Addition
• Vector Subtraction
• 2.3 Vector Addition of Forces