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Vector Mechanics for engineers
A very boring read, but it is an engineering text book. Mostly bought the textbook for the problems I have to do for class. The book is not very conducive to learning. The book spends a lot of time introducing and deriving formulas. In my opinion a textbook should spend a lot more time discussing approaches to problems. Especially for difficult subjects such as engineering in which the problems are very complex and each problem has a unique "trick" to solve. The book pretty much has long winded introductions to formulas which are discussed anyway in classroom lectures. Then, the book just expects the student to solve all the problems by looking at one or two example problems. The text covers approaches to problems really quickly in two pages for every section however these discussed approaches which are very disconnected from the formulas introduced in the main body of the text because they are completely separated from the rest of the section. The text would be better if the applications of the formulas were discussed right after they are introduced. The textbook would benefit if it took out all of the derivations for the formula from the main body of the text and grouped them in an appendix considering that in almost all the lectures the instructor covers all the formulas needed and most student have difficulties going through the homework problem which are always harder than exam problems and problems discussed in lectures. If one was to consider buying this text to teach him/her self the subject I would suggest another text.Lire l'avis complet...
Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics
I bought this book for a Dynamics class I had to take. It seems to be pretty easy to understand with very good examples. These authors have been around a long time and they know how to make a good text book. I haven't had much experience with other texts, but I assume that this is one of the better choices out there.Lire l'avis complet...
Makes Learning Harder Than It Needs to Be
This is the second book by Beer, Johnston, and Clausen that I have had to buy for a class (the other was Statics), and I would not use them again to learn these subjects. I have seen Statics and Dynamics books by other authors, and they do not make it nearly as difficult as these guys do.
The general ideas that are presented in each lesson are actually pretty simple. In this book, however, they take several pages to explain the concepts in the most roundabout way possible, throwing in lots of random mathematical proofs and derivations that just make things more confusing.
To add to this, they give little instruction on how to actually approach Dynamics problems. These problems are all about taking the right steps in the right order. It's hard, but it could be made much easier with step-by-step explanations and illustrations to show you what you are actually looking for.
One saving grace is the CD-ROM that comes with the book. You can use the explanations in the chapter exercises to actually learn how these problems work. Without it or a good instructor, you will likely be lost.Lire l'avis complet...
Engineering student Life line
This solutiuons manual is great for helping understand problems presented in Vector Mechanics for Engineers:Statics and Dynamics. Since it is not printed, you can easily put the files on a flash drive. The problems and solutions are in separate forlders by chapters. The files are arranged as each problem is an indiv. file and eash solutuion is indiv. as well. The downfall to this is that it takes a little extra time to print multiple soultions.Lire l'avis complet...
good, but could be better.
I bought this book for a Dynamics Engineering Course.
The book leaves room for improvement. The format is good with examples at the end of each section before problems, but there needs to be more examples and better examples. Some of the examples are useless to solving problems. The book does a good job presenting challenging work in applying dynamics concepts.
I would say for the price, the book isn't worth it. An older version with the exact same conceptial information can be purchased for less.Lire l'avis complet...
Correct Title
Not quite perfect or like new but close. Bent corners, cover wear, some small page wear. Decent price too.
AWSOME!!!!!!
I got the solution manual and it is awesome. It helps me out so much with my homework. I don't understand the teacher so this helps so much to teach myself the class. It has all problems worked out with free body diagrams. Perfect.Lire l'avis complet...
Same as american ver.
it's the same as the American ver. and it's much cheaper ! the only bad thing is it's a soft copy and it's not as colorful as the American Ver.
really good
ship really fast and in good conditions, ship really fast and in good conditions i really recommend to buy here
Average
I didn't like this book because it doesn't provide enough example problems, there are several difficult concepts in the book that would be clear if textbook provided more example problems.