PREFACE
Most solutions have been checked, and some have been rechecked. Still, only a major miracle could have
prevented me from making an occasional error or overlooking an occasional typo. I would appreciate it very
much if any such errors in the manual (or, for that matter, in the text) would be reported to me. In addition,
for the benefit of other instructors who will receive future editions of this manual, any reasonably written up
solutions to presently unsolved problems would also be appreciated.
This manual is posted as a pdf-file with hyperreferences enabled, including a Table of Contents and a
Bookmark column listing all chapters and problems. This enables the reader to immediately jump back and
forth within the document to locally referenced items (chapters, problems, figures, equations). References to
equations, figures, etc., in the book itself can, of course, not be reached in this way. Users of Adobe Acrobatrcan
easily assemble individual problem set solutions from this manual. To make this also possible for instructors
with access to only the shareware postscript/pdf viewer Ghostview c
, each individual problem is started at the
top of a new page.
State College, PA
December 2002
Michael F. Modest
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
e-mail: mfm6@psu.edu
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