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Title: Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics
ISBN: 0471739316
Author:
J. L. Meriam
L. G. Kraige
Publicate Date: 2006-08-18
Publish: 2006-08-18
List Price: $86.00
Average Customer Rating: 2.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Eww statics
Actually, this book is pretty good. It has a lot of illustrations and good diagrams. The examples are very helpful and they follow along with the questions in the book. Not too thick either. I saw like 6 mispelled words though but whatever.
The good part about this book is that they go pretty slow. Chapter one is the basics that you should already know like some geometry, laws, basic physics, line of action, etc. If you don't already know, great review. The second chapter gets into what you will be doing the entire course... Overall the chapters go at a good speed and the questions aren't rediculous. Statics is something you have to keep practicing to get so there are plenty of problems in the book. The BEST part is... a solution manual is already out for the book :D WOOO
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2: good condition, almost brand new!
I got the book a little less than a week and when I checked to see the inside of the book everything was in place. Not a scratch of tear, not even signs of wear.
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3: Very confusing book
I bought this book for my statics class, it is very confusing. Important and non-important things are mixed together so you don't even know what you should focus on. Example problems take some time to figure out, because not all the details are shown. All of the 'actual' problems are harder than the examples, which means solving them will take some luck and a lot of hours. Only the odd numbers have answers shown. There is no solutions manual, so if your stuck, you will stay stuck. The good thing is, though, the back of the book includes a lot of formulas regarding statics so it can be easily used as a reference.
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4: Almost Useless
This is the worst book I have had to use so far in my studies as an engineer. The chapters are all extremely short ranging from 1-4 pages which means that it is very dense, concise, and rather hard to fully understand. The examples are all too simple compared to the homework problems to be useful and they do not fully explain how they get each answer. Homework problems range from easy to extremely difficult but they get hard real fast. The book gives the answers to all odd problems, but if you don't know how to do the problems, they're pretty useless.
About the only good thing for this book is the fact that the homework problems are so hard that if you do fully master them and are able to complete them quickly and without help, you really don't need to worry too much about your exams.
I you're required to get this book for your class I suggest getting a reference book to go with it or just study for a really long time.
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5: Should come with Kraige
I have used this book and the accompanying statics book all within the last year. The author is my Dynamics professor. These books are not as thick as other Statics/Dynamics books I have seen, and the reason is that they are more problem-set oriented than lecture. You really need a good teacher to help you understand the problems and material. This is where having the author as the teacher helps. The instructional sections of the book are minimal, and I have found the problem sets better for the learning process.
If I were to change this book I would add numerical solutions to every problem, not just the odd ones. And for whatever reason, the publishing oversight is uber critical of posting solutions anywhere other than the classroom, and this can be a nuisance sometime.
Fun fact...a self-proclaimed car guy, Kraige loves problems with cars in them, so there are quite a few of those in there.
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