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Engineering Mechanics - Dynamics (11th Edition)

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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.

I've used both this book and "Engineering Mechanics: Statics" by the same author. Two things jump out at me:

1. This book needs an accompanying solutions manual. There is very little discussion of the material you are supposed to apply in the problems, and no way check if you worked them correctly.

2. This series is riddled with errors, typos, omissions, etc. Be warned, I have come across many mis-typed or incomplete problems, answers, etc.

Neither of these considerations doom the book, but they highlight definite areas for improvement.

This book is basically just a book. It was well written and trys to reach the reader by explaining his thoughts, but this book should be designed for the not so knowledgable in Engineering Mechanics Dynammics. Hibbeler seems to think from 2 examples we should be able to handle then next 20 complicated ones. I do believe a solutions manual is needed for a better grasp of the material. Most likely this is the first time someone is reading and trying to comprehend the material, therefore this book should have a complimentary solutions manual.

I agreed with the previous response because the book is exactly the same as the 9th edition. The contents is the same as the 9th edition and the problem sets are 80% of whats in the 9th edition. The book is a rip off and it also contains ALL the same errors as it did in the past

Dynamics for dummies this book is not however their are better explanation in this edition, but how can one get a hold of the solution manual, who sells that book, this is what students really want to know.

This book has good text and explanation of dynamics, but it lacks good examples to back it all up. Examples given are ideal and seldom resembling any of the homework problems. More examples relevant to the homework would help.

I have brought this text book. The examples in this book does not help me enough to solve the problems at the end of each section. I would like to know if you also have to solution manual to this particular text book. Please reply.

Textbooks are all pretty much the same, written a little above the level of the layman or novice to the subject. Paired with a good instructor the book is informative and the exercises productive. Fundamental problems come with partial solution walkthroughs and all final answers are in the back. Good for learning methods and catching you negative signs and simple errors. Like all engineering textbooks the focus is on the methods not the final answer.

This book offers a lot of workable problems, but the amount of information given is minimal. If you don't already have a solid understanding of dynamic motion, understanding the material and completing the exercises will be very difficult. I feel my old physics textbook did a better job of defining and explaining the concepts.

Like the previous two reviews stated...the book is way overpriced and I had to buy a solution manual from Amazon.uk because apparently they dont sell it here?? If your teacher doesn't assign homework get a previous edition because the examples and explanation are the same...