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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". This approach deprives the student of valuable experience in formulating problems and thus of discovering the need for and meaning of theory. The second view provides by far the stronger motive for learning theory and leads to a better balance between theory and application.
The crucial role played by interest and purpose in providing the strongest possible motive for learning cannot be overemphasized. Furthermore, as mechanics educators, we should stress the understanding that, at best, theory can only approximate the real world of mechanics rather than the view that the real world approximates the theory.
This difference in philosophy is indeed basic and distinguishes the engineering of mechanics from the science of mechanics. Over the past several decades, several unfortunate tendencies have occurred in engineering education. First, emphasis on the geometric and physical meanings of prerequisite mathematics appears to have diminished. Second, there has been a signifi cant reduction and even elimination of instruction in graphics, which in the past enhanced the visualization and representation of mechanics problems.
Third, in advancing the mathematical level of our treatment of mechanics, there has been a tendency to allow the notational manipulation of vector operations to mask or replace geometric visualization. Mechanics is inherently a subject which depends on geometric and physical perception, and we should increase our efforts to develop this ability. A special note on the use of computers is in order. The experience of formulating problems, where reason and judgment are developed, is vastly more important for the student than is the manipulative exercise in carrying out the solution.
For this reason, computer usage must be carefully controlled. At present, constructing free-body diagrams and formulating governing equations are best done with pencil and paper. On the other hand, there are instances in which the solution to the governing equations can best be carried out and displayed using the computer.
These thoughts have been kept in mind during the design of the computer-oriented problems in the Eighth Edition. To conserve adequate time for problem formulation, it is suggested that the student be assigned only a limited number of the computer-oriented problems.
As with previous editions, this Eighth Edition of Engineering Mechanics is written with the foregoing philosophy in mind. It is intended primarily for the fi rst engineering course in mechanics, generally taught in the second year of study.
Engineering Mechanics is written in a style which is both concise and friendly. The major emphasis is on basic principles and methods rather than on a multitude of special cases.
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