Bedford | Fowler, Engineering Mechanics Series
Anthony Bedford, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin
Wallace Fowler, Paul D. & Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Professor Emeritus of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Teach mechanics more efficiently and effectively
Engineering Mechanics uses an example-driven, visual format that better enables students to learn challenging material and develop their engineering mindsets. Curated examples and explanations are paired with compelling free-body diagrams, photographs and photorealistic art. Practice problems allow students to immediately test their understanding and hone their critical-thinking skills.
The 6th Edition features 30% new or updated problems as well as new and updated discussions of many topics, including significant digits, units used to describe angles, force resultants, centroids of symmetric areas, and frictions in threads.
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NEW! Questions to Consider
Encourage students to engage in active reading and relate concepts to their own experiences with Questions to Consider at the start of each section.
Practice Examples and Problems
Practice Problems within the Practice Examples motivate students to spend more time working with the example and checking their understanding of the material.
Results
End-of-section summaries provide a concise self-study tool of the concepts and equations students need to know to work through each section.
Mastering Engineering Features
The Bedford/Fowler series works hand-in-hand with Mastering® Engineering to reinforce key concepts and build problem-solving skills. The flexible digital platform allows you to integrate unique, automatically graded homework and practice problems with exercises from the textbook. Learn more about Mastering Engineering.
NEW: Interactive end-of-chapter problems
All end-of-chapter problems in the text are now included in Mastering Engineering, offering students more opportunities to apply what they have learned.
Tutorial homework problems
Designed to emulate the instructor’s office-hour experience, these multi-step problems provide feedback specific to the student’s errors. Optional hints help break down the problems into smaller steps.
Video Solutions
Offer students step-by-step solution walkthrough videos of representative homework problems from the text.
Anthony Bedford
Anthony Bedford
Anthony Bedford is Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been on the faculty since 1968. His main professional activity has been education and research in engineering mechanics. He has industrial and consulting experience at Douglas Missiles and Space Systems Division, Sandia National Laboratories, and at TRW, where he worked on the Apollo program. His books include Hamilton’s Principle in Continuum Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials (with Kenneth M. Liechti), and Introduction to Elastic Wave Propagation (with Douglas S. Drumheller).
Wallace Fowler
Wallace Fowler
Wallace Fowler is the Paul D. & Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and is Director Emeritus of the Space Grant Consortium. He is a fellow of both the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Fowler was the recipient of the 1976 General Dynamics Teaching Excellence Award, the 1985 AIAA-ASEE John Leland Atwood Award, the 1990–1991 University of Texas System Chancellor’s Council Teaching Award, and the 1994 ASEE Fred Merryfield Design Teaching Award. In 1997, he was elected to membership in the University of Texas Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Dr. Fowler also served as 2000–2001 national president of the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Fowler’s research and teaching interests at UT Austin focused on space systems engineering and design.
