Engineering Mechanics Statics (Hardcover)

by HIBBELER (Author)

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Product Description
This best-selling book 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 its users' problem-solving skills and includes pedagogical features that have made Hibbeler synonymous with excellence in the field. Chapter topics cover general principles, force vectors, equilibrium of a particle, force system resultants, equilibrium of a rigid body, structural analysis, internal forces, friction, center of gravity and centroid, moments of inertia, virtual work, 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 individuals involved in the study of mechanical/civil/aeronautical engineering. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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The seventh edition offers the same successful mix of problem solving tools and readability of previous editions. New features include an extensive 4-color art program, new problems, and enhanced examples which make this the best edition yet. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 56 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan Library Reference; 3rd edition (January 1, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0023543108
• ISBN-13: 978-0023543104
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for what it is., February 17, 2005

By	Brian Mckenzie (Klamath Falls, Oregon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Engineering Mechanics - Statics (10th Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is essentially a large collection of problem sets with breif explainations of the concepts and formulas needed to solve them in between. Illustrations are well done and helpful for solving the problems and the appendix contains answers for all but every fourth problem. You will not gain much insight into the fundamental physics behind statics and you will not find mathematically rigorous derivations of equations but you will become proficient at solving a large number of "typical" situations in engineering using them. If you have a solid background in physics and mathematics (classical physics and single-variable calculus) you will find this book to be good source for practicing your problem solving skills and staying familiar with the basic concepts. Nearly all are of a computational nature with very few conceptual exercises included. If this is the first time you have seen the ideas presented in this book then the problems will be more challenging due to the lack of depth in Hibbler's explainations and examples. I would recommend using an engineering physics text such as Halliday's or Serway's to help grasp the concepts and Hibbler's for practice problems.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 9th edition 2nd printing has many errors, January 22, 2003

By	J. Fawkes (University of Kentucky) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Engineering Mechanics: Statics (9th Edition) (Hardcover)

If you are buying this for an Engineering Statics class, I would suggest trying to locate the 9th edition, 1st printing. Although the text portion is identical, the problem sections in the 2nd printing often refer to illustrations that are nonexistant or incorrect. In addition, the many answers have no correlation to the referenced problem at all. Our instructor assigns many problems as homework, and this has caused major headaches for a majority of the class. I have compared the two printings, and the 1st printing does not contain these errors. Otherwise, the book does a very good job in explaining the various concepts. NOTE: The people at Prentice Hall are unsure if new replacements will be available until after this semester (Spring 2003). DO NOT BUY THE 2ND PRINTING IF YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK THE PROBLEMS.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A statics problem folder, November 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Engineering Mechanics: Statics (8th Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is fair. Its strengths are the quantitiy of problems presented and the fact that the answers to nearly all the problems are in the back of the book. The diagrams to the problems are also very good. The weaknesses: presentation of the concepts is light. It is difficuly to build an intellectual understanding of the material from the reading. The "whys" are not explained. Methods are presented a la carte. This book desperately needs a solutions manual.