Statics and its horrible sibling Dynamics were my two least favorite engineering subjects. They basically take the worst problems in physics, make them harder, and then uses them in a full semester-long course. This book just covers the Statics material. There is a different edition that covers both Statics and Dynamics, and an edition that just covers Dynamics.
How helpful the book will be to you I think depends on i) how good a teacher you have, and ii) the kind of homework problems he or she assigns. Overall, I found that the theory was explained fairly well and the examples gave you a good idea of how to approach solving many of the problems in the problem sets. But, as pretty much every math, science, and engineering textbook do, this one does have problems in the problem set that are much harder than the examples in the chapter text. So, if your professor assigns the harder problems and/or is not easy to follow, you will probably need to get a study guide to supplement the textbook. But, if you have a pretty decent teacher who assigns problems from the chapter that are similar in difficulty to the examples in the chapter text or that are shown during lecture, then the book will give you a pretty good understanding of the material and you can probably understand it without any additional supplements or study guides.
How helpful the book will be to you I think depends on i) how good a teacher you have, and ii) the kind of homework problems he or she assigns. Overall, I found that the theory was explained fairly well and the examples gave you a good idea of how to approach solving many of the problems in the problem sets. But, as pretty much every math, science, and engineering textbook do, this one does have problems in the problem set that are much harder than the examples in the chapter text. So, if your professor assigns the harder problems and/or is not easy to follow, you will probably need to get a study guide to supplement the textbook. But, if you have a pretty decent teacher who assigns problems from the chapter that are similar in difficulty to the examples in the chapter text or that are shown during lecture, then the book will give you a pretty good understanding of the material and you can probably understand it without any additional supplements or study guides.
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