Mechanics of Materials (Hardcover)

by Ferdinand P. Beer (Author), E Russell Johnston (Author), John T. Dewolf (Author), David F. Mazurek (Author)

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For the past forty years Beer and Johnston have been the uncontested leaders in the teaching of undergraduate engineering mechanics. Their careful presentation of content, unmatched levels of accuracy, and attention to detail have made their texts the standard for excellence. The revision of their classic Mechanics of Materials text features a new and updated design and art program; almost every homework problem is new or revised; and extensive content revisions and text reorganisations have been made. The multimedia supplement package includes an extensive strength of materials Interactive Tutorial (created by George Staab and Brooks Breeden of The Ohio State University) to provide students with additional help on key concepts, and a custom book website offers online resources for both instructors and students. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 790 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education; 5 edition (January 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073529389
• ISBN-13: 978-0073529387
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #459,956 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor answer key, February 8, 2006

By	Michael Ploof (Flint, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Mechanics of Materials (Hardcover)

The book explained the concepts of the subject well enough, but the number of typos in the problems and in the answer key led to many hours of frustration. I was often under the impression I was doing something wrong, only to find out the givens in a problem had incorrect prefixes, or some other error.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What A Wonderful Book!!, October 11, 2001

By	Muhammad Abdullah Mubarak Al-Mubarak "capt_m... (Ras Tanura, Najmah Saudi Arabia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mechanics of Materials (Hardcover)

I feel very comfortable recommending this splendid book to aerospace, civil, mechanical, and material engineering students. So far, this book has helped me a lot in 3 courses. Theses courses are CE 203 structural mechanics, AE 328 aircraft structures, and ME 471 mechanical metallurgy.

I have admired this book for the following reasons:

1-It has made me interested in my courses
2-It is very easy indeed to comprehend
3-It uses simple examples to explain the concepts
4-Key formulas are shaded
5-It has a good number of solved problems
6-It has a summary at the end of each chapter
7-Answers to even-numbered questions are provided at the end of this book
8-In case that you forget some basic ideas in your CE 201 (Statics), Appendix A of this book gives excellent review in calculating the moments of areas

I am sure that you will find it very useful.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid exercise book, January 25, 2003

By	Kevin Reza Aroom (College Park, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mechanics of Materials with Tutorial CD (Hardcover)

This book has a lot of interesting questions, but does not really delve into giving detailed procedures for getting answers. In the practice exercises, it skips a bunch of steps, assuming that the reader would already know what to do. At other points in the book, they painstakingly go through simple concepts. This was frustrating situation at times, which was exacerbated by having an incompetent professor. In the end, this book saved my hide by having good pictures and somewhat straightfoward approaches to mechanics problems. Also, the answers in the back of the book are a HUGE help. From them, you can usually identify a stupid mistake in your answer which could be the result of too many or too few zeros.