This course teaches students about Newton's laws of motion and how they can be used to address engineering challenges in order to learn about static equilibrium. The course covers the following topics: basic concepts and principles of statics, forces and particle equilibrium, moment of a force, moment of a couple, equivalent systems of forces on rigid bodies, equilibrium in two dimensions, equilibrium in three dimensions, analysis of general equilibrium problems, structural applications and distributed loads, distributed forces, center of mass and centroids, friction and moments of inertia of areas and mass.