Customer Reviews

Engineering Mechanics, Statics

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The greatest feature of this book is the generous use of examples throughout. For every type of problem, there is some close example that you can refer to.

Even though I didn't particularly enjoy the class for which this text was assigned, I think that the book itself is a great resource, and should be recognized as so.

This book, if I'm not mistaken, is currently in its 11th edition, and my prof. still uses the second edition. I never expected to get such a good book. The price was phenomenal, especially for a college kid going to private school. I expected something that had pages with bent corners (drives my engineer mind CRAZY) and highlighter all over the pages. But no, I picked it up from receiving in a bubble wrap-lined manilla envelope, and it was still in the original vacuum-sealed plastic wrap! I opened it up, and it still had that new book smell, the binding crackled when I opened it, and not a mark was on it! The binding still hasn't worn in 8 weeks later. Great book, great price, exactly as it said. Shipped the next day. Arrived within 3-5 days.

This book is just bad. Like calculus, statics is one of the most crucial courses for an engineering student and if you don't truly learn the material, the road ahead will be tough. This book will not help you. There are three aspects to this book: informational material (5%), example problems (45%), end of section problems (50%). It can feel like some of the sections with informational material, can fit on an index card.

The author has taken the approach of "Learning by doing" and as such, there are loads of example problems. Some sections talk about a given principle for less than half a page and then have 6+ pages of example problems. This would be an excellent thing, however the explanations on the applicaton of the principles in an example is curt and almost always a re-hash of the already very brief paragraphs in the "informational" section. This leads you to spend most of your time just trying to follow the logic (which isn't explained) in the example problem at which point your statics class becomes more of a self-taught experience.

The book arrived quickly and was in excellent condition, cost was great too, about half the price I would have paid at our campus book store