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A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (Mechanical Engineering)

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This was the book used for my first course in fluid mechanics and it was great. The text is easy to understand and follow. Example problems are done out fully. The material in the book is not in-depth enough to make it a great reference, but as far as instruction goes, this book is superb. Another great part of this book is that it is not as expensive as other texts. A new copy of the second edition was less than $40 at the campus bookstore.

A note to instructors, the solution manual (which is also excellent) is readily available online - or at least it used to be.

This is not a solutions manual to the problems in the textbook. However, knowing that it is still a very helpful resource. There are similar problems from each chapter to help with homework problems and most of the test questions for my course came from this book, so it makes a great study tool. One of the problems was incorrect, you'll find it if you look, they put a decimal in the wrong place before performing a calculation. Other than that, it's a great supplemental instruction tool.

This solutions manual does not provide answers to the questions at the end of each chapter of the fluid mechanics book; instead the solutions correspond to the Review Problems section on the book website. There are around 15 problems worked out per chapter, all of which are easy to follow and understand. This book is a good reference to have but for me isn't worth the money since it doesn't help me work through my homework problems.

This is not a solutions manual to the "Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics" textbook, but rather solutions to supplemental questions for each section in the book. It's kind of nice to have some extra practice, but otherwise not really necessary.