Known for its accuracy, clarity, and applications, Meriam & Kraige's Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics has provided a solid foundation of mechanics principles for more than 50 years. Now in its new Sixth Edition, the text continues to help students develop their problem-solving skills with an extensive variety of highly interesting problems related to engineering design. In the new edition, more than 40% of the homework problems are new. There are also new sample problem and more photographs that link theory to application. To help students build necessary visualization and problem-solving skills, the text strongly emphasizes drawing free-body diagrams--the most important skill needed to solve mechanics problems.
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Known for its accuracy, clarity, and applications, Meriam & Kraige’s Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics has provided a solid foundation of mechanics principles for more than 50 years. Now in its new Sixth Edition, the text continues to help students develop their problem-solving skills with an extensive variety of highly interesting problems related to engineering design. In the new edition, more than 40% of the homework problems are new. There are also new sample problem and more photographs that link theory to application. To help students build necessary visualization and problem-solving skills, the text strongly emphasizes drawing free-body diagrams—the most important skill needed to solve mechanics problems.
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Glenn Kraige is Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. He is a fellow member of the American Society for Engineering Education, and received his Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Should come with Kraige,
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This review is from: Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics (Hardcover)
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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Terrible Explanation, Good Problems,
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This review is from: Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics (Hardcover)
This book is terrible at teaching. Each section provides the concept for the following questions, but does not explain things in detail. You won't be able to learn dynamics with this book alone. You will need the solutions manual.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
OK book,
By Melony Mahaarachchi ""Mechanical/Aerospac... (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics (Hardcover)
This book explains the concepts very carefully. However, it jumps topic to topic without a smooth trancision. Examples are very elementary, but the problems at the end of each chapter gets tedious quickly. Prefer if the hard problems are approached with more examples. Biggest down fall I see is that there are no answers at the back for any problems.
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nonrotating reference axes, primary inertial system, plane curvilinear motion, constant upward velocity, assume small oscillations, initial angular acceleration, nonrotating axes, centroidal radius, circular disk rotates, clockwise angular velocity, uniform slender bar, neglect all friction, uniform slender rod, general plane motion, kinetic diagram, solid circular disk, curvilinear translation, uniform circular disk, nonrotating system, angular velocity coo, translating axes, determine the angular acceleration, instant depicted, semicircular disk, interconnected rigid bodies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sample Problem, Introductory Problems, Representative Problems, Free-Body Diagram Kinetic Diagram, Repeat Prob, Computer-Oriented Problems, John Wiley New!
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nonrotating reference axes, primary inertial system, plane curvilinear motion, constant upward velocity, assume small oscillations, initial angular acceleration, nonrotating axes, centroidal radius, circular disk rotates, clockwise angular velocity, uniform slender bar, neglect all friction, uniform slender rod, general plane motion, kinetic diagram, solid circular disk, curvilinear translation, uniform circular disk, nonrotating system, angular velocity coo, translating axes, determine the angular acceleration, instant depicted, semicircular disk, interconnected rigid bodies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sample Problem, Introductory Problems, Representative Problems, Free-Body Diagram Kinetic Diagram, Repeat Prob, Computer-Oriented Problems, John Wiley New!
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- Instructor's Manual to Accompany Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 2: Dynamics, 4th Edition by J. L. Meriam in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Engineering Mechanics: Statics WITH Supplement AND Study Guide v. 1 by J. L. Meriam in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
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