Mechanics of Materials helps students gain physical and intuitive understanding of the ideas underlying the mechanics of materials; grasp big picture ideas and use the subject to solve problemseverything it takes to genuinely learn how the forces acting on a material relate to its deformation and failure.Student-focused Organization: Drawing on over two decades of research on student learning of mechanics concepts and engineering education methods, Dr. Steif uses a thoughtfully organized book structure to break the subject apart for students and then helps them put it back together. Students can generally picture deformation better than they can picture forces (for instance, imagine seeing a ruler bend and then calculating the force)therefore, he begins with the deformation and then covers the associated forces. He starts with a simple situation and then builds a more general mathematical representation.
