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Mechanics of Engineering Materials (2nd Edition)

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This is, without a doubt, the WORST text-book I have ever had in school ever! The examples are poorly written and all the numbers just put in the formulas right away so half of my time goes into finding out what formulas are being used, and the other half goes into reading the bad text. The problems are many with wrong given answers and well.. that is just typical because the book left me nothing. I would strongly recommend other books for subjects this book teaches.

I can't believe how badly written this textbook is. I could find countless mistakes riddled throughout the pages including: missing units, wrong units, spelling mistakes, wrong answers given. In addition, the examples do not clearly show how to go about a certain problem, nor do they explain what equations are used. This textbook should have never been published.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with other two reviews posted above. Every now and again I do refer to the book, but it's certainly not my favourite. I actually checked to see if there's a new edition out because I thought it would contain a lot of corrections. It does cover many topics, that's why I find it useful, but tread carefully.