Statics and Analytical Geometry

This book uniquely covers statics and analytical geometry with a section on background mathematics, providing the student everything needed to complete typical first year undergraduate courses in these areas. This book discusses the classical subjects of Euclidean, affine and projective geometry in two and three dimensions, including the classification of conics and quadrics, and geometric transformations. These subjects are important both for the mathematical grounding of the student and for applications to various other subjects. Students often find statics difficult subjects, since the skills needed to visualise problems and handle the mathematics can be tricky to master. After a detailed look at Newton’s second and third law, one can examine its application. Author’s friendly approach makes life easier for both student and tutor, tackling concepts from first principles with many examples, exercises and helpful diagrams. An unsolved problems at the end of each chapters are to reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses. A time-saving approach to perform better in exams or at work, simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student. This self-teaching guide gives you, a fast and easy way to understand statics and analytical geometry. The material is presented in a geometric way, and it aims to develop the geometric intuition and thinking of the student, as well as his ability to understand and give mathematical proofs. The book includes large number of exercise and problems with lot of worked examples with solutions.