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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
EAN: 9780136077916
Edition: 12
ISBN: 0136077919
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 752
Publication Date: April 24, 2009
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
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KEY BENEFIT: R.C. Hibbeler’s text features a large variety of problem types from a broad range of engineering disciplines, stressing practical, realistic situations encountered in professional practice, varying levels of difficulty, and problems that involve solution by computer. KEY TOPICS: Maintaining the hallmark Hibbeler focus on problem-solving, visualization, and accuracy, this edition includes over 50% new problems, and new elements of Conceptual Problems, Fundamental Problems and MasteringEngineering, the most technologically advanced online tutorial system. MARKET: Ideal for civil and mechanical engineering professionals.
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I bought this for a college friend of mine and she is very please with the book.
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The questions are straight foreward and most of the examples are really helpful. One of the better books published by Hibbler.
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i got the standard shipping for this book and i had ordered another book that was expedited shipping and they both came in at the same time! roughly a week but i got it before i needed it! i was really satisfied.
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I am a sophomore mechanical engineering student that absolutely never ever pays attention in class. So this always leaves me learning 100% from a book.
At my school, we were assigned Beer & Johnston's 8th Edition for Statics & Dynamics. I used it all through my statics course and managed to get an A. However when it came to dynamics, the material gets more difficult to grasp (because it's moving away from you).
I began to look online for a supplemental book, I read a lot of negative reviews for the hibbeler book, but decided to go for it. I ordered this book and began reading the chapters and working the example problems. I then attempted the assigned homework from the beer&johnston's book. After learning the material from the hibbeler book, I found it MUCH MUCH easier to take on the problems from the beer&johnston's book.
Here's an example. On our past section in dynamics (Principle of Work) several students got hung up on an assigned problem for about two days. Once I got to it, I knew exactly how to handle the problem because I was properly taught how to handle it (from the hibbeler book). I looked in the beer&johnston's book and they completely skipped over it.
To me this book is equivalent to having a much better teacher, because it is the book that teaches me everything.
Another thing, about the solution manuals. No engineering book is going to come with worked out solutions like the calculus books tend to do. The objective of these higher level courses is to teach the student how to think and analytically solve problems rather than rely on raw memorization.
I did not mean for this to be so long-winded, but I feel that a lot of people took the course and struggled and are blaming it on the book. If the book was any easier, you wouldn't learn as much. This is a great book for those that want to learn the real deal.
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Hibbeler is a good author and this is just the book for those looking for plenty of difficult examples. This book works for engineering-dynamics classes because it focuses on the drill work and methodology for solving problems. The answers to 3 out of 4 homework problems can be found in the back of the book which is good for those who want instant feedback.
The book is relatively readable in comparison to other books on the subject and I love the optional sections on mechanical vibrations and gyroscopes.
The only downside of the book is that it focuses on problem solving and leaves out some of the more important dynamics theories: Hamiltonian, Lagrangian, Eulerian, etc. I would advise supplementing this book with a physics based dynamics book or a multivariate engineering-based dynamics book like SHAUM'S OUTLINE OF LAGRANGIAN DYNAMICS.
Overall, good for what it's supposed to be...
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