Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 620.1054
EAN: 9780131416789
ISBN: 0131416782
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: September 11, 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Sales Rank: 402096
Studio: Prentice Hall
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Offers a concise and thorough presentation of engineering mechanics theory and application. The material is reinforced with numerous examples to illustrate principles and imaginative, well-illustrated problems of varying degrees of difficulty. The book is committed to developing users' problem-solving skills. Features new 'Photorealistc' figures (approximately 200) that have been rendered in often 3D photo quality detail to appeal to visual learners. 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. A thorough presentation of engineering mechanics theory and applications includes some of these topics: Kinematics of a Particle; Kinetics of a Particle: Force and Acceleration; Kinetics of a Particle: Work and Energy; Kinetics of a Particle: Impulse and Momentum; Planar Kinematics of a Rigid Body; Planar Kinetics of a Rigid Body: Force and Acceleration; Planar Kinetics of a Rigid Body: Work and Energy; Planar Kinetics of a Rigid Body: Impulse and Momentum; Three-Dimensional Kinematics of a Rigid Body; Three-Dimensional Kinetics of a Rigid Body; and Vibrations. For professionals in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, aeronautical engineering, and engineering mechanics careers.
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Rating:  - Superior to Beer & Johnston
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the Better Engineering Dynamics Books...
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...
Rating:  - Don't buy unless you have to!
This book is utter garbage! They show no work or explanations in the examples, or even in the solutions manual. The book goes like this: A really nice picture, then a formula without any numbers or explanation, then a numeric answer. I can't even figure out how to follow the solutions manual. The author has the most unique problem solving methods I have ever seen. My dynamics professor has given up on the book, as has the rest of my class. It is now just used as a book of homework problems. This will be the only book I sell back in my college career!
Rating: - Still Waiting
I ordered this book about 2mths ago and still havenot recieved the book.
Rating:  - Bleh
I have never seen a textbook with such a sparse amount of explanation. Some of the sections are litterally a couple paragraphs, and they repeat themselves constantly. But they do a good amount of examples and have put a lot of effort into their illustrations. So, meh.
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