What should I do before taking my Statics course (ME major)?

[Mohmmad Maaitah]

TL;DR Summary: I am taking the Statics course next semester (in a month) and it seems very difficult as people told me, I couldn't find someone who did great in it to seek advice. so if you did great in statics please provide me with tips and advices, thanks in advance.

By the way I am majoring as Mechanical Engineer.

 

[jack action]

You must have a very demanding teacher because Statics is not very hard. Let me resume all you need to know for the course:
$$\sum F = 0$$
$$\sum M = 0$$
If one wants to be more explicit, one may extend $\sum F = 0$ as:
$$\sum F_x = 0$$
$$\sum F_y = 0$$
$$\sum F_z = 0$$

 

[Mohmmad Maaitah]

You must have a very demanding teacher because Statics is not very hard. Let me resume all you need to know for the course:
$$\sum F = 0$$
$$\sum M = 0$$
If one wants to be more explicit, one may extend $\sum F = 0$ as:
$$\sum F_x = 0$$
$$\sum F_y = 0$$
$$\sum F_z = 0$$

Excuse what is the second formula? the one with summation of M

 

[berkeman]

Excuse what is the second formula? the one with summation of M

Moments...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque