Best Statics Textbook? Help Finding Right Book

[andryd9]

Please help! I'm having trouble in Statics, and my textbook isn't helping. I've got Vector Mechanics for Engineers by Beer and Johnson. I've heard it's supposed to be a good text, but am finding it inscrutable for some reason. Any recommendations?

 

[jasonRF]

All of my mechanical engineering friends in college used that book (certainly an earlier edition) many years ago ... I am not a mechanical engineer, but I happened to have run across this free online textbook awhile ago:

http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/Book/index.html

Not sure if it helps, but at least the price is right.

jason