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Summary: Mechanics of Materials
Review: Average or below average book. Examples are somewhat useful. Often incorrect answers in the back. Have used 3rd and 4th edition. Not much has changed expect for the problems.
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: Having read and used several books in this area, my favorite one is this book. While studying for my PE last year in Mechanical Engineering, I tried to use Gere and Timoshenko, but found it to be difficult to read. I was familiar with R.C. Hibbeler's Engineering Mechanics books, and liked his writing style and resulting "ease of presenting technical engineering topics in a readable format with many examples and practical problems." So I got a copy of this book and found it to be very well organized, very readable, very good figures and illustrations, and very practical and useful. So I would highly recommend this book to all, along with R.C. Hibbeler's other books.
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: Having read and used several books in this area, my favorite one is this book. While studying for my PE last year in Mechanical Engineering, I tried to use Gere and Timoshenko, but found it to be difficult to read. I was familiar with R.C. Hibbeler's Engineering Mechanics books, and liked his writing style and resulting "ease of presenting technical engineering topics in a readable format with many examples and practical problems." So I got a copy of this book and found it to be very well organized, very readable, very good figures and illustrations, and very practical and useful. So I would highly recommend this book to all, along with R.C. Hibbeler's other books.
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Summary: Comments on this book.
Review: I am an author of this book, so I cannot review it. But I want to point out that the review by "mr303" cannot have been written about this book, because the book will be used in the classroom for the first time this spring, so the reviewer cannot have taken a course using it. Furthermore, the identical review by the same reviewer appears with the listings of other books having the same title, so it's clear there's just been a mixup. Also, the listing of this book gives the wrong publisher; it is published by Prentice Hall.
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Summary: Okay, but poor discussion
Review: I used this book for an engineering mechanics course. I still have it. I decided to keep it instead of sell it. The book is very well illustrated and full of problems with the answers in the back of the book. The discussions are brief and poorly developed. They do not facilitate an intuitive understanding of the subject material. The author seems to believe you will develop theoretical understanding by working problems. Alas, the approach will probably result in a good grade but not in a solid understanding. If you are an atypical sudent genuinely searching for subject mastery, this book is of marginal value. Its value is largley in the illustrations alone. I have found that having multiple books on the same subject is often the best learning approach. Since one author may cover one subject well and fall short where another shines.
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Summary: useful and practical book
Review: I was a pre-engineering student in Seattle. This book have plenty of examples in which I can follow step by step. The homework problems are useful, practical and innovative in this book. It help us to visualize the practical problems outside the school. Thus, this is very helpful for the engineering students, especially Civil and structral, to build up the fundamental concept of materials. Nevertheless, this class is not easy. It is hard to undersatnd the concept of Materials for the beginner. It is very helpful for students to have peer group or ask for your professor to have further explanations or examples.
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Summary: Hard to Follow and Needs More Examples
Review: I'm a pre-engineering student taking a mechanics of materials course at a local community college. I find this book tough to follow along and understand. I read through a section, and ask myself what I read, and I dunno. I have found it easier to understand in other textbooks with many more examples, but simple ones. With a half-dozen or so examples for each chapter, it makes the later problems way more difficult. Difficult is good, sometimes, if a student can understand more than just the basics in that section. I believe why many textbooks (engineering and physics [see Haliday and Resnick]) are tough to follow and understand is to "weed out" many students. Letting the ones who adapt well to the writing/teaching style of the text go on. I myself really want to understand this material, and go on in engineering. I agree with another reviewer somewhere, which says that having more than one text helps your understanding. I had to buy another book when I was learning C++ and I understood a lot more. In this case, I will buy another textbook, because I'm having a hard time (and so are many of my classmates) reading this book. On a side note, nor does it help to have an instructor who's teaching style does not work for you. And at least a partial Solution Manual would be extremely helpful to students, 'cause, the examples are not extensive enough. Thanks and God Bless!
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Summary: Good for begineers in material
Review: This books has a LOT of examples in every chapter almost 10-15 examples per chapter,it makes good for feedback an almost comes with most o answers odd and even.It also is spanish good book!.
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Summary: Good for begineers in material
Review: This books has a LOT of examples in every chapter almost 10-15 examples per chapter,it makes good for feedback an almost comes with most o answers odd and even.It also is spanish good book!.
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Summary: Overall good book
Review: This is a good book on a very difficult subject. It was the text book for one of my harder engineering classes. The book does a pretty decent job of explaining theroies, and the worked example problems are done pretty good. My only complaint is that the worked examples are quite easy compared to the homework problems. Homework problems require lots of time, thinking, and MORE time. Overall i thought the material was pretty interesting. Good Luck
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